The Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications calculated the number of new adults aged 2024 as of January 1, 1 from the estimated population based on the census population and taking into account population changes such as births and deaths in the Basic Resident Register, and found that there are 18 million new adults nationwide as of January 106, 0.86. It was revealed that the number of people has reached a record low. The proportion of the total population was XNUMX%, which is also the lowest on record.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, there were 106 million new adults, a decrease of 6 from the previous year. Its share in the total population has decreased by 0.03 points. It remained almost flat from 2015 to 2022, but has entered a sharp decline again due to the declining birthrate. It peaked at 1947 million in 1949, when the first baby boom generation born between 1 and 1970 reached adulthood, and reached 246 million in the 1971s when the second baby boom generation, born between 1974 and 2, reached adulthood. They used to outnumber humans, but their numbers have dropped to about half that number.
The Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications does not mention the reasons, but in addition to the decline in the number of children raising children, income growth has not kept up with price increases during the lost 30 years of the Japanese economy, and the burden of taxes and insurance premiums has increased, leading to a decline in the number of children raising children. Some believe that the current situation, which is difficult to sustain, is being exacerbated.
On the other hand, there were 488 million men and 517 million women born this year in the year of the Dragon, a total of 1,005 million people, accounting for 8.1% of the total population. The largest number of people born in 48 was 1976 years old, at 180 million. There were 12 million people born in 2012, the youngest at age 104, which is 84 fewer than the 1940 million people born in 112, at age 8.
