KevB

Japan: Demographic Time Bomb Waiting to Explode

Japan is certainly not alone with a low birth rate and declining population. There are 78 countries ( 60 percent of the worlds pop ) now in countries with birth rate below 2.1... or 2.33 in Develpoing countries ). Immigration only means MORE elderly people in the future as the immigrants also grow old and also have the same birth rate as the host population in one generation.. see Canada, Australia and Europe .. Japan can increase the pension age to 70 nad make 10m more workers available and cut the pension bill in half.

Also, women make up only 50 percent of the workforce against 70 per cent in USA and 80 per cent in Scandinavia. Helping women to get good wellpaid jobs after children would increase workforce by another 5m. that would mean no immigrants for the next 40 years.