The birth rate in the country currently stands at about 2. While other countries are trying to encourage growing fertility rates, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on people to have smaller families. But there is a vigilant section of the public which stops to think, before bringing a child to the world, whether they can do justice to the child, give them all that she or he wants.
Let's learn from them. There is a need for social awareness," he said in a speech last year. Nigeria and other countries in Africa are bucking the trend of population decline. According to the new Lancet study, the population of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to treble in size to more than three billion people by Nigeria will become the world's second most populous country, with million people, it says. The new study predicts that Nigeria will have one of the largest working-age populations in the world by and see big increases in GDP.
But rapid population expansion puts a strain on infrastructure and social structures, and Nigerian officials have spoken out about trying to ease population growth. In a interview with the BBC, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said there needed to be a discussion about the country's birth rate - which is among the highest in the world. Fertility treatments to resume at reduced level.
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Instead, the net inflow to the capital area has accelerated — reaching nearly , in The people flowing into the Tokyo metropolitan area are drawn by its employment opportunities. A large number of them are youths who are entering universities or starting jobs. Roughly half the new coronavirus infections in the country emerged in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba.
The key to reversing the population flight to Tokyo is creating more jobs in other parts of the country. In fact, a larger number of firms have instead moved to Tokyo, where business demand is higher and the labor pool is larger.
With the population and tax revenue falling, it is expected that many small towns and villages will be unable to continue administrative services for residents or maintain basic infrastructures in the not so distant future.
Efforts to resolve the problem by creating regional networks of municipalities to provide administrative services have not made much progress. In many of these areas it is even becoming increasingly tough to sustain local assemblies — the foundation of local autonomy — in their current form.
Demographers forecast a steep population decline for Japan this century. The Japanese Statistics Bureau pdf estimates that the Japanese population will fall to just over million by , from around million today. How low can it go? At the pace of decline projected by the UN, and assuming no change in migration or fertility rates, the Japanese population would fall to 8.
By , it would be less than 2 million. The laws of math mean it would decline very slowly from there. These were supposed to reduce the costs of childcare and force companies to adopt more parent-friendly policies. To avoid massive population declines, Japan will almost certainly have to turn to immigrants.
The government seems to reluctantly acknowledge this. The number of foreign workers skyrocketed over the past decade , from , in to nearly 1. Yet few of these workers are offered permanent resident status, and to discourage them from staying most are not allowed to bring over their families. By providing your email, you agree to the Quartz Privacy Policy.
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