Japan's birth rate is set to hit another record low, with 2022 likely to see just under 800,000 new citizens coming into the world. The government has pledged more financial aid to reverse the ...

Japan will be down to its last child in 695 years, according to a university's "population clock"—a thought experiment and grim portent as the country's birth rate edges closer to the point of ...

Japanese leaders have called the country’s declining birth rate alarming. The clock displays the current number of children in Japan, the previous year’s data, real-time population decline ...

Japan’s already low birth rates have further declined. Last year, the nation’s “total fertility rate,” which indicates the number of children a woman is expected to give birth to during ...

Japan's total fertility rate ... on Wednesday show the total fertility rate ― the number of children that each woman is expected to give birth to in her life ― declined 0.06 points from ...

The number of Japanese children born ... The total fertility rate, which indicates the number of children a woman is expected to give birth to during her lifetime, fell from 1.26 to 1.20 in ...