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Japan: More social support to rise birth rate
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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    The government of Shinzo Abe, prime minister, has made raising Japan’s birth rate a priority. On Friday it approved a budget that takes the first steps towards providing free pre-school, private high school and university education in an effort to reverse the trend.

    Unless the low birth rate is reversed, the only option to increase Japan’s population would be for it to take in more immigrants. Yet despite high inflows of guest workers drawn by the strong economy, Japanese politicians have been reluctant to debate the subject.

    Mr Abe’s government has instead set a target to raise the total fertility rate to 1.8. Officials hope the strong economy, combined with measures making it easier for women to combine work and childcare, will encourage families to have more children.

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  • sebollasebolla

    Capitalism needs new workers to sustain the endless growth...

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @sebolla

    I think here it is just simple projection for number for workers. Even with significant fall of production it'll be problem.

    Japan issue is that people become smart and as they calculate expenses on apartments+transport+education they decide to use always condoms :-)

  • ghkqnghkqn

    Japan already has the highest percentage of seniors in the world and it is rising. The population has been shrinking for decades. Reversing this trend in the long run is a do or die for the country as a whole.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    The population has been shrinking for decades. Reversing this trend in the long run is a do or die for the country as a whole.

    At first you need to take side. Either robots will rule and it'll be little number of workplaces, or all robots will rust it'll be too many workplaces and no one to work on them.

    For now it looks like robots is the way things are going. So Japan can be actually better with their way.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Did not help at all.

    The estimated number of babies born in 2018 dipped to 921,000 -- the lowest since records began in 1899 -- according to a report published Friday by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

    The number of newborns is estimated to have shrunk by 25,000 from 2017, and the figure remains under the 1 million mark for the third year running.

    Deaths in 2018 also hit a postwar record high of 1.369 million, with a natural population decline of 448,000 -- the highest ever.

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