Japan needs more people to pay for the old ones

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Japan's birth rate fell to its lowest level on record last year, with the country welcoming just 799,728 newborns in 2022, a 5% fall on the prior year. That fact alone would be enough to have demographers worried, but the nation also recorded 1.58 million deaths, a figure up 9% year-on-year, accelerating the decline of Japan’s native population.

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