The latest survey shows that half of young men and women in Japan do not want to have children. (Schematic diagram/shutterstock Dazhi Image)
The number of newborns in Japan in 2023 will be 758,631, a decrease of 5.1% from 2022, setting the lowest record since statistics for 8 consecutive years. While government officials are struggling to solve this problem, the latest survey shows that more than half of Japan’s young unmarried men and women do not want to have children, and the problem of low birthrate is likely to continue to intensify. Even Tesla founder Elon Musk recently wrote that “if nothing changes, Japan will disappear sooner or later.”
Data from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare show that the number of newborns in 2023 will be 758,631, a decrease of approximately 41,000 from 2022. This is the eighth consecutive year that the number of newborns in Japan has hit a record low. The National Institute of Social Security and Population Issues of Japan pointed out that Japan’s declining birth rate is 12 years faster than expected. They originally estimated that it would take at least 2035 for the number of births in Japan to fall below 760,000.
Japan’s Rohto Pharmaceutical announced the 2023 version of the fertility-related “Pregnancy White Paper” on the 1st. Regarding the question of whether to get pregnant in the future, 55.2% of the 400 unmarried men and women aged 18 to 29 answered “I don’t want to get pregnant in the future.” Child”. In the four years since the survey was conducted, the number of people who do not want children has increased year by year, and this time it has exceeded 50% for the first time. This survey was conducted online in December 2023. 59.0% of men and 51.1% of women answered that they did not want children. In 2020, when the survey was first conducted, 44.0% of men and women answered that they did not want children, an increase of 11 percentage points in just three years.
Musk noted that if no changes are made, Japan will disappear. (Picture/reproduced from X)
Tesla founder Musk also cited the news of Japan’s record low birth rate on X (formerly Twitter) on February 29, saying that “if no changes are made, Japan will disappear.” He also pointed out in May 2022 that “if no changes are made and the birth rate is higher than the death rate, Japan will perish sooner or later, which will be a great loss to the world.” This attracted attention.
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2024-03-02 09:25:07
