Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of Japanese women hold jobs than their American counterparts.

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

Japan sees record population drop in 2024 Japan's population fell to 120.3 million as of October 2024, official data showed on Monday, marking a record fall of 898,000 people from the previous year.

Meanwhile, the proportion of the population considered to be of working age, or between 15 and 64, dropped by 224,000 to 73.73 million, or 59.6 percent compared with the United States' 62.3 percent.

The graph below summarizes the growth forecast for Japan's service robot market, ... approximately 40% of Japan's population will be aged 65 or older.

The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899. ... Japan's population of about 124 million people is projected to fall to 87 million by 2070, ...

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June 4 (UPI) --Japanese 2024 births dipped below 700,000 for the first time, according to government data released Wednesday. Births dropped 5.7% to 686,061 as Japan's population dropped by ...

Changes in human population, urbanization and areas of land under cultivation and forest. Credit: Nature Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-025-01578-w ...

TOKYO (AP) — The number of newborns in Japan is decreasing faster than projected, with the number of annual births falling to another record low last year, according to government data released… ...

The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899. ... Annual births fall to another record low in Japan as its population emergency deepens ...