Japan faces ‘extinction’ in 1,000 years
Japanese researchers on Friday unveiled a population clock that showed the nation’s people could theoretically become extinct in 1,000 years because of declining birth rates.
Academics in the northern city of Sendai said that Japan’s population of children aged up to 14, which now stands at 16.6 million, is shrinking at the rate of one every 100 seconds.
Their extrapolations pointed to a Japan with no children left within a millennium.
Yoshida said he created the population clock to encourage “urgent” discussion of the issue.
Another study released earlier this year showed Japan’s population is expected to shrink to a third of its current 127.7 million over the next century.
Government projections show the birth rate will hit just 1.35 children per woman within 50 years, well below the replacement rate.
Meanwhile, life expectancy — already one of the highest in the world — is expected to rise from 86.39 years in 2010 to 90.93 years in 2060 for women and from 79.64 years to 84.19 years for men.
More than 20 per cent of Japan’s people are aged 65 or over, one of the highest proportions of elderly in the world.
Japan has very little immigration and any suggestion of opening the borders to young workers who could help plug the population gap provokes strong reactions among the public.
Source AFP
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Japanese researchers on Friday unveiled a population clock that showed the nation’s people could theoretically become extinct in 1,000 years because of declining birth rates. More than 20 per cent of Japan’s people are aged 65 or over, one of the highest proportions of elderly in the world.
….on a more positive note, get out there and procreate like there’s no tomorrow, for tomorrow may never cum……
THAT IS HARDLY A POSITIVE NOTE WHEN YOU WITNESS A MAN WHO WILL DUE ANYTHING TO GET AWAY FROM HIS HIDEOUS FAT PIG OF A WIFE, A WOMAN WHO HAS KIDS IN DIRE NEED OF MENTAL HELP BC SHE STUCK A DEFORMED SPERM INTO AN EGG THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO ENTER THAT EGG AND THEN WANTS THE TAX PAYERS TO PICK UP THE 20+ THERAPISTS + THE TAB AND SPENDS ALL OF HER FREE TIME ON FAKEBOOK TRYING TO PICK UP MEN, DATES AND ALLIES. I HAVE SEEN FAR TOO MUCH TO FALL INTO THAT PATHETIC TRAP!! THEN THERE IS THE PLIGHT OF THE FAT UGLEE FEMALE WHO WANTS TO KNOCK HERSELF UP WITH A NEEDLE SYNDROME=EVEN MORE PATHETIC. NO THANK YOU. I OBJECT TO ALL OF IT AND AM ALL THE WISER FOR IT! OH, AND I AM A FERTILE MERTILE AND I STILL WON’T DUE IT=I DON’T NEED THE AID OF IVF!! 🙂