{"id":6249,"date":"2025-06-04T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2025-06-04T16:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:55:58","slug":"japan-births-in-2024-fell-below-700000-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=6249","title":{"rendered":"Japan births in 2024 fell below 700,000 for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time on record, government data showed Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fast-ageing nation welcomed 686,061 newborns in 2024 \u2014 41,227 fewer than in 2023, the data showed. It was the lowest figure since records began in 1899.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japan has the world&#8217;s second-oldest population after tiny Monaco, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called the situation a &#8220;quiet emergency&#8221;, pledging family-friendly measures like more flexible working hours to try and reverse the trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday&#8217;s health ministry data showed that Japan&#8217;s total fertility rate \u2014 the average number of children a woman is expected to have \u2014 also fell to a record low of 1.15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of births in Japan last year fell below 700,000 for the first time on record, government data showed Wednesday. The fast-ageing nation welcomed 686,061 newborns in 2024 \u2014 41,227 fewer than in 2023, the data showed. It was the lowest figure since records began in 1899. Japan has the world&#8217;s second-oldest population after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}