The number of births among Japanese nationals alone and the total fertility rate — the average number of children a woman has over her lifetime — are usually announced each June. According to ...

Japan’s declining birthrate shows no sign of slowing. According to preliminary vital statistics released by the health ministry on Feb. 27, the number of births in 2024 dropped by 37,643 ...

Japan's demographic woes are shared by South Korea, China, and Taiwan, all of which have fertility rates well below the 2.1 births per woman needed for population replacement. While this is true ...

Japan's population, which stands at about 125 million, is projected to plummet to 87 million by 2070. The fertility rate—the number of births expected per woman's lifetime—dropped to 1.20 ...

TOKYO - The number of babies born in Japan, as well as to Japanese ... the pace of decrease in births for the first half of 2024 accelerated to 3.6 per cent from the same period last year ...

Births were down 5 percent ... might have turned a corner. In Japan, the most recent data shows the corresponding figure for the average number of babies a woman is expected to have during her ...