Japan's population is collapsing.
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) July 31, 2024
In the past year Japan lost nearly a million people as fertility falls to a record 1.2 children per woman.
At that pace, if you start with 100 million people, after 3 generations you're down to just 20 million.
The factors driving Japan's… pic.twitter.com/LrVA3AYvgY
The Happening is finally happening. I won't live to see any of this, but... Korea's next, with a population that's getting steadily older thanks to an even lower birth rate than Japan's. Hence the current desperate turn to immigration. And caretaker robots.
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