Editing Demographics of Japan (section)

====Fertility before 1873====
Source: <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-11 |title=Fertility rate: children per woman - Our World in Data |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211183757/https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-born-per-woman?tab=chart&country=~JPN |access-date=2025-05-16 |website=web.archive.org}}</ref>

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! Years !! 1800!!1801!!1802!!1803!!1804!!1805!!1806!!1807!!1808!!1809!!1810
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| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Japan|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.08|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.11 || style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.14|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.17|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.20|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.22|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.25|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.28|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.31|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.34|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.37
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! Years !! 1811!!1812!!1813!!1814!!1815!!1816!!1817!!1818!!1819!!1820
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| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Japan|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.00|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.43 || style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.43|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.44|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.44|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.45|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.45|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.45|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.46|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.46
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! Years !! 1821!!1822!!1823!!1824!!1825!!1826!!1827!!1828!!1829!!1830
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| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Japan|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.47|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.47 || style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.48|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.48|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.48|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.49|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.49|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.50|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.50|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.51
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! Years !! 1831!!1832!!1833!!1834!!1835!!1836!!1837!!1838!!1839!!1840
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| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Japan|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.51|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.51 || style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.52|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.52|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.53|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.53|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.54|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.54|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.55|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.56
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! Years !! 1841!!1842!!1843!!1844!!1845!!1846!!1847!!1848!!1849!!1850
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| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Japan|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.58|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.59 || style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.60|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.61|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.62|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.64|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.65|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.66|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.67|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.68
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! Years !! 1851!!1852!!1853!!1854!!1855!!1856!!1857!!1858!!1859!!1860
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| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Japan|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.70|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.71 || style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.72|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.73|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.74|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.76|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.77|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.78|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.79|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.80
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! Years !! 1861!!1862!!1863!!1864!!1865!!1866!!1867!!1868!!1869!!1870
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| align="left" |[[Total Fertility Rate]] in Japan|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.82|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.83 || style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.84|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.70|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.55|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.41|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.27|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |4.13|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.98|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.84
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! Years !! 1871!!1872!!1873
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| align="left" |Total Fertility Rate in Japan|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.70|| style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.56 || style="text-align:right; color:blue;" |3.41
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In 2023, Japan's total fertility rate was 1.20, among the lowest in the world and far below the replacement rate of 2.1.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-12 |title=Japan's Fertility Rate Drops to New Record Low |url=https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02015/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=nippon.com |language=en}}</ref> In January 2023, Japanese Prime Minister [[Fumio Kishida]] pledged to take urgent steps to tackle the country's declining birth rate, calling it "now or never" for Japan's aging society; he had planned to double the budget for child-related policies by June 2023 and to set up a new government agency in April.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-01-23 |title=Japan PM Kishida: it's 'now or never' to stop shrinking population |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-pm-kishida-its-now-or-never-stop-shrinking-population-2023-01-23/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Reuters}}</ref>

{{Wide image|File:Births and Total fertility rate of Japan.svg|600px|Births and total fertility rate of Japan}}

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File:Number of births by age groups in Japan.svg|Number of births by age groups in Japan
File:Map of East Asia by TFR in 2021.png|Map of East Asia by [[total fertility rate]] (TFR) in 2021. Japan's TFR in 2012 was estimated at 1.41 children per woman, increasing slightly from 1.32 in the 2001–05 period. In 2012, the highest TFR was 1.90, in [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], and the lowest was 1.09, in [[Tokyo]]. TFR by [[Prefectures of Japan|prefecture]] for 2000–05, as well as future estimates, have been released.<ref>{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.ipss.go.jp/webj-ad/webjournal.files/population/2011_Vol.9/Web%20Journal_Vol.9_01.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420060214/http://www.ipss.go.jp/webj-ad/WebJournal.files/population/2011_Vol.9/Web%20Journal_Vol.9_01.pdf |archive-date=2012-04-20 |access-date=2012-03-09}}</ref>
File:Total fertility rate of Japan overtime to 2016.svg|TFR of Japan over time to 2016
File:Percentage of birth to unmarried women, selected countries, 1980 and 2007.png|The percentage of births to unmarried women in selected countries, 1980 and 2007.<ref name="non_mar1">{{cite web |date=May 13, 2009 |title=Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States |url=https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.pdf |access-date=July 9, 2022 |work=CDC/National Center for Health Statistics |archive-date=July 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722153939/https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db18.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> As can be seen in the figure, Japan has not followed the trend of other industrialized countries of children born outside of marriage to the same degree.
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