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IPFS News Link • Japan

Japan's total births in 2016 drops to lowest level in nearly 120 years

• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang

There were 976,979 babies born last year in Japan, the fewest since the government started tracking the data in 1899, according to labor ministry data released on Friday.

India had 25.6 million births in 2016.
China had 18.5 million births in 2016.
Nigeria had 10-11 million births in 2016 (Nigeria has especially inaccurate demographics)
Indonesia had 4.5 million births in 2016.
The USA has almost 4 million births in 2016.

The overall world population will exceed 7.5 billion in 2017.


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