Japan Demographics

[Axtremus]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/01/asia/japan-births-2022-record-low-intl-hnk/index.html

2022 statistics shows 2:1 death to birth ratio.

[LuFins Dad]

@Axtremus said in Japan Demographics:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/01/asia/japan-births-2022-record-low-intl-hnk/index.html

2022 statistics shows 2:1 death to birth ratio.

Saw that this morning. Japan is a quickly aging country.

[Horace]

@LuFins-Dad said in Japan Demographics:

@Axtremus said in Japan Demographics:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/01/asia/japan-births-2022-record-low-intl-hnk/index.html

2022 statistics shows 2:1 death to birth ratio.

Saw that this morning. Japan is a quickly aging country.

But the statistics show that young people are replacing the old at a rate of 2:1. Which is to say there is a net youngening, probably due to youth in asia.

[taiwan_girl]

The Japanese PM Kishida talked about this in a recent speech to the Diet in January.

"Japan is on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society......"

[Axtremus]

Lonely Death epidemic in Japan:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/01/life-at-the-heart-of-japans-solitary-deaths-epidemic-i-would-be-lying-if-i-said-i-wasnt-worried

Some 68,000 people are expected to die alone and unnoticed in Japan this year, police say, as the population continues to age

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@Horace said in Japan Demographics:

probably due to youth in asia.

Here's a fun fact. When I was a kid, I got a number of phrases wrong.

For example, we had a grape arbor next to our house. I thought it was "great barber". And to your point above, I thought the controversial topic was "youth in asia" until I learned it was "euthanasia".