Demographic Shock Ground Zero: Japan Births Drop Below Million For The First Time On Record

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Dec 25, 2016

While the US is finally starting to feel the social, political and economic hit from an aging population, nowhere is the demographic impact more visible than in what is the epicenter of the developed world’s demographic problems: Japan. It is here that according to the latest government data, the number of births in Japan is likely to fall below a million this year for the first time since data became available in 1899.

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