Twice as many people die in Japan as are born. The country’s population is in freefall. And Japan’s Prime Minister has already been sounding the alarms over the falling birth rate.
“Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society,” Fumio Kishida told lawmakers a few months ago.
In 2022, these birth rate numbers plummeted to another record low of 799,728. This was the first ever dip below 800,000.
Deaths, on the contrary, hit a record high last year. Totaling 1.58 million, or nearly double.
