"From 2010 to 2024, Japan’s population shrank by around 6.0 mln people. Maybe a poor Japan and maintaining big gender inequality in the country could lead to more child births and slow down Japan’s ageing and shrinking population, but what a price to pay ! " 

Fertility rate is the average number of children a woman is likely to have over her childbearing years. A fertility rate of 2.1 is necessary for a country's population to remain stable, absent immigration. Japan’s fertility rate fell to 1.15 in 2024, down