On Thursday, the Health Ministry underlined the rapid aging and the decrease of the population, saying that the number of infants born in Japan in 2024 decreased by 720,988 for the ninth consecutive year in 2024.
Despite the measures by former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government to promote child-bear in 2023, births were below 5% in the year, while every new child means a record number of 1.62 million deaths compared to two people.
Although the fertility rate in neighboring South Korea grew for the first time in nine years in 2024, thanks to measures to marry people and motivate children for children, the trend in Japan has been to show a top.
Takumi Fujinami, for economists at Japan Research Institute, said that the decline in delivery of Japan is less marriages in recent years, which stems from the Kovid -19 epidemic.
Although the number of marriages increased by 2.2% in 2024 to 499,999, which could only occur after steep decline, search as a dip of 12.7% in 2020.
“The effect can also occur in 2025,” Fuzinami said.
Unlike some Western countries, only a few of every 100 infants in Japan are born out of the wedding, suggesting a strong relationship between marriages and births.
The news that the fertility rate of South Korea increased to 0.75 in 2024 in 2023 this week, from 0.72 in 2023 revealed that the demographic crisis of the neighboring nation had turned into a corner.
In Japan, the most recent figures suggest that a woman has been shown a related figure for the average number of a woman during her reproductive life in 2023.
Although it was too early for any comparison between the figures in the two countries, Fuzinami warned, both were imported for job opportunities and the difference was stopped for young people to marry and encourage children.
Experts believe that South Korea’s work-family balance, childcare and government support in three areas of accommodation, positive turn results, as well as a campaign for business for paternity of employees.
