Society 5.0: Japanese population decline and robotics
· The factors that led to the reduction of the population
The Japanese population in 2009 reached its highest number of
population. It reached 127,340,884 million; since thenstenumber
decreasing. After only ten years, 2019 already presents a fall
population of approximately 2 millions of people. This causes a great
impact on the economy and society as a whole, due to population reduction
economically active and the consequent reduction of labor, and the increase in
elderly population.
Former Minister of Health, Katsunobu Kato, announced
that in 2017 only 946,060 children were born, or less registered number
since 1899. In contrast, 1.340.433 Japanese passed away. The office of
Japan statistics estimates that the population will decline to 100 millions,
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