Japan's falling population is owed, in part, to a spike in the success of women in the workforce. A greater percentage of ...

Both the elderly population and the aging rate were the highest since 1950, when such data became available. The number of women 65 and over was 20.53 million, or 32.3 percent of Japan’s female ...

During the period, Japan became one of the world's most rapidly aging societies. Its population also began to shrink in 2010. The number of babies born in the country last year was almost 30 ...

Japan’s population drops to record low as government looks to tackle birth rate issue - Japan’s population fell for the 14th straight year amid concerns over the ageing population ...

but also regarding the aging of its society. Lacking large-scale immigration, the population has already been declining since 2010, now by more than 600,000 inhabitants a year. This puts Japan a ...