Takayama, Noriyuki - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2006
In 1988, the total fertility rate (TFR, the number of children per family) of Japan was 1.38, recording a historic low … total population of Japan will peak at around 128 million, and from then on, Japan will become a society of declining … population. In a hundred years, the population of Japan will likely be cut down to half the current population. One out of three …