A Japanese expert on demographic trends and ageing society has warned that if the country’s birthrate continues its current decline, the nation will be left with only one child under the age of 14 by 5 January 2720.
Hiroshi Yoshida, a professor at Tohoku University’s Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, has been maintaining a conceptual clock that highlights Japan’s rapidly declining fertility rate by displaying real-time data on the number of children in the country.
