By Regis Arnaud
Posted 3 hours ago, Updated 3 hours ago
Between January and October last year, the Department of Health recorded 669,871 births, an unprecedented number since the 19th century. Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via Portal Connect
DECODE – Although the Japanese are twice as numerous as the French, they hardly have any more babies. The decay is unstoppable.
Tokyo
“Japanese society is on the verge of paralysis”: During his counter-speech in parliament on Monday, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sounded the tocsin. The reason for such a call to launch: the country’s demographic collapse. Last year the archipelago likely fell below 800,000 births, a number not seen since the 19th century. Between January and October last year, the Department of Health recorded 669,871 births. Stunning comparison: even in a situation of demographic scarcity, France, with a population almost half that size, recorded 606,996 births over the same period. The prospect of a higher birth rate in France than in Japan is less science fiction than science fiction today. Also in 2015, Japan had 1 million babies.
This awareness of the Japanese government is very late. Undoubtedly too much. The population began to decline fifteen years ago…
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