Why does Japan still have a declining/low birth rate, even though the Japanese goverment has enacted several nation-wide policies to tackle the problem?
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In addition to the other problems other people have been listing, demographic issues like this tend to snowball as social programs are largely built to be supported by stable or growing populations, and tend to crumble under their own weight when a country’s population begins to decrease.
When you already have a large population of elderly people that are no longer working and that percentage just keeps increasing, stuff like welfare and healthcare programs begin to weigh heavily on the current workforce, forcing them to work longer hours for the same pay to support pensions and benefits that were promised to the older generation.
Work being too stressful and time consuming, and also not giving you enough spare income to afford supporting kids and buying larger house to raise them is an obvious result.
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