{"id":31265,"date":"2026-05-29T12:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/31265\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:56:03","slug":"japan-population-sees-record-five-year-drop-census-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/31265\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan population sees record five-year drop: census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Japan&#8217;s population dropped by a record 2.5 percent in the span of five years, census data showed Friday, as the world&#8217;s fourth-largest economy struggles to overcome demographic woes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A preliminary tally of Japan&#8217;s census, released every five years, found that the population slipped to 123 million people in 2025 &#8212; more than three million fewer than when the survey was last carried out in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was the biggest decrease since the twice-a-decade survey started in 1920, and more than triple the decline recorded between 2015 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The data &#8220;once again confirmed the population decline in our nation is deepening,&#8221; top government spokesman Minoru Kihara told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Japan has one of the world&#8217;s lowest birth rates and an ageing population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While immigration is often floated as a solution to Japan&#8217;s shrinking demographic, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pushing for tougher measures against an inflow of foreigners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Official data showed that the number of births in Japan fell for the 10th straight year in 2025, with a total of 705,809 babies born.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Central and local government officials have tried with limited success in recent years to incentivise marriage and childbirth, from launching dating apps to boosting child-rearing allowances and subsidising parental leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">tmo\/aph\/hol\/tc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s population dropped by a record 2.5 percent in the span of five years, census data showed Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24152,24151,8,13420],"class_list":["post-31265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-ageing-population","tag-census-data","tag-japan","tag-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}