Foreign nationals will account for nearly 11 percent of Japan’s dwindling population of 87 million in 2070, according to an estimate by the labor ministry. The nation’s overall population will ...

A Japanese professor has predicted the year Japan will become extinct if the country doesn't grapple with its rapidly ageing population. The year is 2720 and away from science-fiction fantasies of ...

National data also shows 29.1% of the 125 million population is aged 65 or older- a record. Japan has one of the lowest birth-rates in the world and has long struggled with how to provide for its ...

It may be one of the world's most advanced economies, but Japan struggles to attract foreign ... The country is buckling under the weight of an aging population, declining birthrate and shrinking ...

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 ...

Fumio Kishida said it was a case of "now or never." Japan - population 125 million - is estimated to have had fewer than 800,000 births last year. In the 1970s, that figure was more than two million.

TOKYO – Japan had a record fall in its population in 2022, government data showed on Wednesday, as the country struggles to reverse its perennial low birth rates. While many developed countries ...

Tokyo [Japan], February 28 (ANI): The number of babies born in Japan in the year 2023 fell to a record low from a year earlier as the country's population shrank by its largest ever margin ...