2023-08-29 10:07:29
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of the Japanese government released preliminary data on vital statistics on the 29th (numbers that have not yet been revised and verified), showing that the number of births from January to June this year decreased by 3.6% compared with the same period in 2022, reaching 371,052 , in the part of the preliminary data in the first half of the year, it is a new low for comparison since 2000, which once again highlights the development status of Japan’s teenage girls.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of the Japanese government released preliminary statistics on population dynamics on the 29th. The number of births in Japan in the first half of 2023 was 371,052, a record low since 2000. (Associated Press file photo)
Japan’s “Mainichi Shimbun” and “Nihon Keizai Shimbun” reported that according to preliminary data from January to June this year, the number of births per month is lower than that of the same month in 2022, and the cumulative number of births in the first half of the year fell below the 400,000 mark for the first time The first half of 2022 will come even lower. The number of births in the first half of 2022 will be 384,942.
Preliminary data include the number of births of foreigners who have settled in Japan and Japanese who have traveled abroad. The estimated and confirmed numbers to be announced in the future will only count the number of births of Japanese who have settled in Japan, so the number at that time may be lower than the preliminary data.
The estimated number of births in 2022 announced by the Japanese government in June this year is 770,747, which is the first time since statistics began in 1899 that it has fallen below the 800,000 mark.
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