The fertility rate, or the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime, was 1.2565. Read more at straitstimes.com.
to a record low, the health ministry said on Friday, underscoring the sense of crisis gripping the country as the population shrinks and ages rapidly.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made arresting the country’s sliding birth rate a top priority and his government, despite high levels of debt, plans to earmark spending of 3.5 trillion yen a year on child care and other measures to support parents.
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