Japans Bevölkerung sinkt zum 13. Mal in Folge auf unter 125 Millionen

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1. China : Let’s race!

2. I wonder if this will lead to cheaper housing for them

3. You’ve built an impossibly expensive nation on an extreme workaholic culture. You’re not going to turn this around quickly.

4. Good for them, now how do we expand it to the whole world? Especially in third world countries.

5. We got to get a resurgence of the family values and less work focus, or just heavily incentivized child bearing policies

6. Corporatism and consumerism kill nations

7. Just about every country should follow suit

8. Good, there’s no need for this stupid fucking infinite growth..

9. Put me in, coach.

10. Congrats japan! Keep up the good work!

11. Wish my country had this problem instead of the opposite.

12. When policies of today eat up the present
    the presents eats up the future

13. Stop pressuring us or we’ll never get it up.

14. If you put government profits aside is less population really a bad thing?

15. So there is a “consumer sentiment” index that economists use to help forecast how the consumer driven economy might do the next few months.

    I propose the “breeder sentiment index.”

    The most critical question prospective parents should ask themselves is “will I be able to ensure the happiness and well-being of this life that I will be responsible for in the future?”

    Already, many evaluate this from a perspective of self-reflection and say NO.

    Then, many more evaluate this from the economic perspective and say NO.

    I’d say after these two considerations the answer would hopefully be NO for 50% of the fertile population of a developed country. The exact number would be hard to discern as the total fertility rate of developed countries, being between 1.0 and 1.75, would include women who have had a child but have come to said realization only after having a child.

    However, when you start to account for spreading awareness of climate change and global ecological collapse, the breeder sentiment index will quickly drop not just from intrinsic factors (aforementioned self evaluation, emotional or financial, etc) but from extrinsic or environmental factors. Birth rates are simply a lagging indicator.

    Think of it this way. Those who are reflective and self aligned would abstain from breeding. Those who are ignorant but not self aligned, economic concerns might keep them from breeding. Then you have those that can economically swing it and are thinking of having a child – they will additionally look at shaky food supply, the increase of novel materials pollution in their own bodies, day by day (not even to think about what their future fetus/child would face) and horrific inequality, and will be able to easily envision the violence to come.

    I expect the total fertility rate (TFR) to crash in most developed countries to well below 1 in the next few years.

16. You quarterly reminder that:Germany, Spain, and Italy (and if you’re willing to just look at below replacement the most of the industrial world) have very similar demographic trends to Japan, but it’s only Japan that you see with these kind of hand wringing articles written about on the monthly.what is a uniquely Japanese problem is a lack of **immigration**.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

17. [Department of Economic and Social Affairs – Population Division](https://population.un.org/wpp/)

    For those interested in the raw data.

    This gets updated every two years.

18. Can they like, stop work at 5.30pm and have some sexy time, pop some babies, make childcare and parenthood more stress free? Simple ask really

19. It’s called an anti-immigration policy.  They don’t want anyone else on the island. 

20. …and amazingly, Japan *hasn’t* devolved into the lawless, post-apocalyptic barren wasteland that we keep being told will happen to Canada and other countries if we don’t have unhinged, unlimited immigration displacing locals and suppressing wages, and being slave-labour fodder for fast food franchise expansions.

21. The ultimate problem Japan has regarding it’s population decline is the cost of living. Here in the U.S. most schools are free to be admitted to during the primary level. In Japan, schools are mostly done by tuition. Another thing is that most Japanese people live in the major cities. All the good paying jobs are in the cities, so they congregate there to make a decent living, in spite of the cost of living being higher there then in the rural areas. If they could spread out the good paying jobs into more rural areas, invest more in domestic agriculture and the fishing industry, and encourage people by a combination of giving more tax incentives to large families to encourage growth, tax breaks to non corporate, first time land buyers in rural areas and tax people for living in the cities, they might be able to reverse this negative trend.

22. When my parents were born the world population was about 2.5 billion. Since then the world has added 5.5 billion people. There is no good way to make it happen, but the world needs a population off-ramp that hopefully won’t be a sudden collapse.

23. The Japanese people are not having sex because it is very hard with pixelated parts.

24. The Japanese have 125 million people in an area the size of California (pop. of 39 million). Is this really a population problem for Japan?