Japan logs record low 811,000 newborns in 2021

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1. Not going to get any better anytime soon.

2. To put in perspective, how many deaths did they have in 2021?

3. Thats not a bad thing.

4. Compared to Taiwan and South Korea, this number doesn’t look that bad… Taiwan only got about 153,800 while South Korea 260,000…

5. Japan is going to be like Iceland

   Iceland is an island nation with an incredibly small population and low birth rate but it continues to have a high quality of life

   Japan will be like that in the future to come.

   I mean, South Korea and China’s birth rates are incredibly low as well

   China isn’t a high income country but it’s already facing a demographic catastrophe

   South Korea’s birth rate is the lowest in the industrialized world. It’s population is already declining and aging rapidly than Japan’s

   Reunification won’t save South Korea’s demographics crisis

   The birth rate in North Korea is also low. Then the cost of enriching and modernizing North Korea will be a drain on the South Korean economy

6. In on population thread where keynesians scared that there won’t be enough fake demand in the future to sustain fake markets and keep wages low for corps say Japan will cease to exist and there won’t be enough people to man the family marts

7. People have no hope for the future and that’s why they aren’t having kids. Plus there is no government support in most of the world for people having children.

8. Oh cool, my daughter was one of them. Should have been born in 2022 but is healthy and happy even if she was early.

9. vast majority in my apartment building no doubt. Little bastards are everywhere.

10. I’m planning to have 3 children I hope it helps

11. My daughter was born in 2021 so it’s not my fault! If they’d pay a little more per month we could try for another, but as it stands we can barely get by now.

12. Children are very expensive. I don’t blame them.

13. thats still a fucking lot of kids though.

14. Did my part, had kids with the native waifu, then we all moved to my home country where salaries are higher as is the potential investment growth. Japan is going to lose former expat populations of highly skilled workers like this, because long term prospects aren’t as good as countries with higher wages. These don’t factor into the net deaths minus births per year calculus. This type of loss will discourage future me’s some years ago from going and potentially staying.

15. Shorter lines at Costco!

16. Having lived in Japan and went through school, a lot of my friends were heavily disillusioned by “wife life” as we called it. We saw so many abusive men, gossiping about divorces, that having a baby made you fat, your husband would cheat if you had a kid, etc. Now as teen girls thats just boring teen girl talk. But I do think some of that fear translates into your adult life.

17. anime waifus got a hold of us, i’m sorry.

18. So much for all that pandemic sex.
    I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to breed under these circumstances.

19. I don’t know why people “worry” about this. It’s still almost a million new people.

    Until the world population has fallen from 8 billion people to 100 million people, there’s nothing to worry about.

    So tired of Japan news being worried “we don’t have enough people”. We have 125 million people in Japan, MORE than enough, and it’ll all balance out over the next 20-40 years when all the current old foggies finally pass on.

    If 811000 babies are born every year for the next 100 years, Japan still got 81 million people.

20. It shows, too. I could go like 20 miles out of my city and it was nothing but old, dilapidated villages populated by elderly people.

21. The thing is, if you look at the rate, number of births stays steady at 1.5 the number of marriages of the same year.

    This seems to indicate that WHEN they get married, Japanese still have kids. And because there’s almost no birth outside marriage, then the issue is about getting married or not.

22. There isn’t a month where essential food stuff isn’t raised 30%. So … Even if you think that 12 months ago people where fucking like rabbits. Wise choice. You wouldn’t be able to afford a kid anyway

23. A high cost of living means it is hard to raise kids. It’s a time investment that will last for decades normally.

24. I’m Japanese, but it makes me laugh when I see foreigners excitedly posting about Japan’s birth rate.
    How many children have you had? I wonder every time.