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Japan's birth rate plunges to new low in 2024 as population decline accelerates​

In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in Japan, including to foreign nationals, down five percent from 758,631 in 2023, according to preliminary health ministry data. ― AFP file pic
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Thursday, 27 Feb 2025 5:30 PM MYT
TOKYO, Feb 27 — Births in Japan hit another record low in 2024, falling for the ninth-straight year as young people delay marriage while the elderly population rises, government data showed today.


The numbers highlight the dramatic demographic challenges facing the world’s fourth-biggest economy, where a shrinking workforce is having to shoulder the costs of caring for a ballooning elderly population.


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In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in Japan, including to foreign nationals, down five percent from 758,631 in 2023, according to preliminary health ministry data.

The number of births shrank to the lowest since government started tracking the data in 1899.

 

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