Japanese Official: If The Population of The Country Does not Increase, We Will Be Heading Towards Extinction.
Japan’s deputy prime minister says that if the country’s declining birth rate is not addressed, Japan will disappear.
Shortly after Japan’s health ministry released its annual statistics on birth and death rates, Mori painted a rather grim picture of reality in an interview. According to last year’s statistics, the death rate in Japan is twice the birth rate and it is 1.58 million deaths per 799,728 births.
The latest figures are the continuation of a decade-long downward trend in Japan’s population growth, and in addition, the birth rate has reached below 800,000 people for the first time in 2022. The aging process of Japan’s population continues and the average age is reported to be 49 years. The number of people over 65 years of age in Japan has reached more than 29% and this country has become the second oldest country in the world after the small country of Monaco.
Mori said about this trend: If this negative trend continues, Japan is in danger of social collapse. The conditions of the birth rate are getting worse every year. It is not that the rate will decrease gradually, but it is a straight downward slope. If nothing is done, the security system of the society will collapse, the industrial and economic forces will decrease and the army will not have enough force to protect the country. With this process, Japan will disappear.
In late February, Kishida described Japan’s birth conditions as an urgent threat to Japanese society and pledged to increase spending and funding to stimulate the birth rate, including an increase in allowances for couples.
