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The number of children in Japan has to its lowest number since records . There were 170,000 fewer children in Japan at the end of March 2018 than there a year earlier. Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications a report on Friday the falling numbers of children. According to the statistics, the number of children aged 14 or under for the 37th consecutive year. There another record fall in the ratio of children to the overall Japanese population. This to a new record low of 12.3 per cent and the 44th year of decline in a row. This ratio the lowest among countries in the world with a population of 40 million or more.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been to address the country's dwindling birth rate. He has several measures to lower-income families to have bigger families. However, these measures to having little success. This is with the fact that fewer Japanese people are married, which demographers say is a "ticking time-bomb" for Japan. The number of annual births in 2016 below one million for the first time since the government collecting data in 1899. Japanese demographers that by 2050, Japan will have 23 per cent fewer citizens. This means a rapidly aging society and a greatly diminishing workforce.