Musk recently tweeted that risking to say something obvious, unless something changes that put the birth rate above the death rate, Japan will eventually cease to exist. This is not alarmist.
In the past 2021, the total population of Japan has decreased by 650,000 people. So why is Japan's fertility rate so low? It's all economic trouble.
Some predict that if this continues, Japan's total population may fall to about 53 million by 2110, comparable to the population of 1915, about 100 years ago, and Japan will become a veritable country of the elderly.
The core reason is that Japan's economic growth has peaked, and in order to stimulate economic growth, young people are under increasing pressure to live and work, and the cost of childbirth is high and the economic burden is heavy.
It is reported that in Japan, the childcare cost of only one child has reached 600,000 yen, even if the government subsidizes young people with a large amount of subsidies, they are not willing to have children, and many family businesses in Japan cannot find a successor, even if the Japanese government vigorously subsidizes it, it is still not effective.
As we all know, at the end of the 90s of the last world, Japan had the worst economic crisis in history, this economic crisis caused a serious economic recession in Japan, 500 billion bad bank debts, countless business failures, The Japanese people felt unprecedented panic about the future, unemployment and suicide rates repeatedly reached new highs, and this economic crisis made Japan sleep for 20 years.
Eager to make up for the losses and facing a demographic dilemma, for a small Japan whose economy is greater than everything, who can guarantee that the next economic crisis will not repeat itself?
To develop the economy, the population will inevitably decrease, and the development of the population will not be able to afford the economy, and Japan is in the most embarrassing era at present.