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We are entering the worst.
Our demographic decline is going to be drastic.
»Masashi Kawai is not going all the way.
The president of the Institute for Research on Demographic Decline presented his findings to the press on Tuesday on the impact of Covid-19 on the birth rate in his country.
And painted a literally cataclysmic picture.
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This is our worst problem,
” he warned.
Japan's birth failure is well documented.
In the 20th century, the Archipelago experienced a fantastic demographic acceleration, passing between 1920 and 2008, the year of its peak population, from 55 to 128 million inhabitants.
It was on the back of this wave that the Japanese “economic miracle” took place, a creation of unprecedented wealth in human history.
The post-war figures especially make you dizzy.
In 1946, the Japanese fertility rate reached 4.5 children per woman and 3.6 million children were born that year.
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Since then, the Archipelago has gone through the stages of its demographic decline one after the other.
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