The number of children under 14 in Japan falls for the 41st consecutive year, in the face of the prolonged decline in births, exacerbated by the last two and a half years of the pandemic. The data, published in the latest census of the Ministry of the Interior, coinciding with today’s holiday that celebrates the day of childhood, sees a population of 14.65 million boys and girls, down by 250 thousand units, and at the minimum level since 1950, the year the statistics began. The percentage of minors under the age of 14 out of the entire population of the Rising Sun is 11.7%, lower than the 12.9% in Italy and 11.9% in South Korea. Japan was registered in 1954, at 29.89 million, showing an acceleration around the seventies, and then reversing the course from 1982 to today.
