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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to introduce a four-day workweek to ease the burden on families, some analysts believe it will have little impact on declining births unless ...