Japan is one of 61 nations not producing enough babies to replace their populations.
With the world’s population hitting the above seven-billion mark, it seems as though the decades-old warning about the ‘Population Bomb’ could become true. In his landmark 1968 book by that name, Paul Ehrlich had warned that “we will breed ourselves into oblivion”.
But Japan today represents the exact opposite and is one of 61 nations not producing enough babies to replace their populations, according to the United Nations.
The Japanese now have one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, and at the same time, one of the …read more
Source: The Indian Express
