South Korea’s population decline is serious, and the birth rate per woman is already below 1.0.
For Japan, this is no longer a phenomenon that is happening on the other side of the sea.
The number of births in Japan last year finally fell below 700,000.
Only students who are about to take university entrance exams may be happy about this,
but the situation is extremely serious.
If the situation continues as it is and nothing is done to improve it,
older people will make up the majority of the population, and the young labor force will only decrease.
People will become poorer than they were before.
Young people’s wages will not increase.
In the worst case scenario, the country will disappear.
It has been ten years since politicians in Japan first began talking about measures to combat the declining birthrate, but the birthrate continues to fall with almost no action being taken. Currently, the number of people is decreasing by approximately 2,325 per day, which translates to a population decrease of 848,625 people per year.
Raising children costs money. We should spend more money on child-rearing. We must urgently consider and implement a system that allows people to raise children with peace of mind.