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There are the birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce number of children in Japan since birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce began. There were 170,000 fewer children in the year birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce March 2018 than in the birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce year. Japan's government issued a birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce showing the falling numbers. According to the birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce, the number of children aged 14 or under dropped for the 37th birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce year. There was also a record birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce of 12.3 per cent in the ratio of children to the birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce population. This was the 44th year of decline in a row. This birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce is the lowest among countries with a population of 40 million or more.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has tried to address the country's birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce birth rate. He introduced birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce to encourage lower- birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce families to have more children. However, these have had little birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce. This is coupled with the birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce that fewer Japanese people are getting married. Demographers say this is a " birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce time-bomb". The number of annual birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce in 2016 fell below one million for the birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce time since records began in 1899. By 2050, Japan will have 23 per cent birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce citizens. This means an aging society and a greatly reduced birthsconsecutivedwindlingendingfactfewerfewestfirstincomelowmeasuresoverallpreviousratiorecordsreportstatisticssuccesstickingworkforce.