Japan's demographic future?

[bluesky3000]

The country has been relaxing on foreigners / foreign labourers coming to japan or rather welcoming them to work in japan, central japan like tokyo is filled with lots of foreigners whereas the other parts not so much yet.

[Tomboy-]

In the long term, improve in technology means Japan won't need a large labour force.
They have the ageing problem and they respond by increasing taxes again and again, increasing burden of the taxpayers and lowering incentive of consumption and having children more.

[Dangerous-Boy]

japan needs to speak more english


Playstation is dead to me ever since the invention of the DLC for console and no backwards compatiablity with older discs. I like a complete game.


Japan also lost the cell phone market to the iphone and the TV market to samsung.


I also think the Japan does not do software as well compare to the US. Plus, china funds hauwei.



I wish the US would have robot design like japan.

[Camlon]

A lot of people knowledge of Japan is based on outdated knowledge. Japan has over a long time had a very low fertility rate, and low immigration. This combination has caused Japan to have the worlds oldest population.

But things are changing. Japans fertility rate has started to increase and immigration is also increasing. Unlike Europe, those immigrants benefit the economy. Japan demographic future is not that bad, compared to a lot of other countries.

Here you can see the fertility rate in US, Finland, Korea and Japan.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator...lse&start=1990

[Greysholic]

The fertility rate is increasing in Japan not because people are having more babies, but because there are fewer women of reproductive age since the population is extremely skewed to the elderlies.

[Tomboy-]

Originally Posted by bluesky3000

The country has been relaxing on foreigners / foreign labourers coming to japan or rather welcoming them to work in japan, central japan like tokyo is filled with lots of foreigners whereas the other parts not so much yet.

Japanese are too pessimistic about their economy and covid situation. These are difficult problems. As a result, they think differently from people in some developing countries, the US and Canada, where people predict their economies and covid situation are becoming better.

[PacoMartin]

Originally Posted by Tomboy-

Tokyo has increasing labor force while most other prefectures are losing population and economy shrinking.

Ireland is the only country in Europe to lose population since the 19th century.

For the census of 1851, the first census immediately after the Great Famine, the population of the island was recorded at 6,575,000. After the great famine, much of the population either fled to the US or went to Dublin or simply died.

In 2016, the population of Ireland for the first time exceeded the population recorded in 1851,

The population of Dublin is 1,345,000 in 2016 and only 405,000 in 1851.
Connaught county is 551,000 in 2016 but was 1,419,000 in 1841 (hit a low of 390 milliion in 1971)
Louth county was 128,000 in 2016 and 128,000 in 1841
Most of the counties in Ireland hit a low in 1961.

Hungary has been dropping in population for almost 40 years and is now what it was in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

Roughly half the population of the world lives in a country with Total Fertility Rate (TFR) below replacement level. But population growth is still exploding in Sub-Saharan Africa and on the Indian sub-continent. So population growth is not really a world issue like it was 6 decades ago, but is now a regional concern. You could be facing serious depopulation and an aging population or the complete opposite.