Japan’s population is aging more swiftly than any population in history. Over the next fifty years, the number of non-elderly will decline, while the number of elderly will increase. And it has been proposed that Japan will be the first developed nation to fall below the ratio of three working adults to each elder. This growing proportion of elderly persons w

Japan is known for its longevity and with such a high life expectancy rate, its aging population will remain large and in the picture for many years. Since 1960, the mortality decline among the elderly and middle aged has contributed to the increase in Japan’s life expectancy, which continues to increase at an accelerating rate. In 1995, the life expectancy in Japan was 76.6 for men and 83 for women. By 2020, the female life expectancy will be 90. As a result, the average retirement age is 62.1 for men and 61 for women. This aging population is also growing in size. In 1995, people over sixty-five composed 14.5% of the Japanese population. It has been projected that by 2025, those sixty-five and older will become 25.8% of the population.

The main cause of Japan’s demographic trend resides within their low fertility rate, which compares the number of births per one thousand women between the ages of fifteen and forty-four. Today, Japan’s fertility rate is 1.39, one of the lowest in the world, whereas the United States has a fertility rate of 2.03. Since contraception and abortion became available in 1960, the fertility of older Japanese women between the ages of thirty and thirty-four has declined dramatically. Overall, this not only leads to fewer people today, but fewer people tomorrow as well, since present actions will result in a smaller number of childbearing women in two or three decades. Japan’s population is estimated to peak at around 127 million by 2007, and then near the end of the century, drop by half. This plunging birthrate does not provide an easy explanation, but statistics show that it mostly stems from a decline in marriages.

All human beings get older, no matter what language or skin color you stem from. As mentioned above, various components of aging initiate change within society, especially in regards to social and

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