In Japan, more than 1 in 10 people of the country’s 124 million population are now aged 80 or older, according to a new report published by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on August 18, 2023. Japan’s fast-ageing population has forced the government to raise healthcare and pension spending. It has also introduced a package of wide-ranging measures to curb the country’s falling birth rate. But so far those measures have failed to reverse the trend.

日本內(nèi)務省2023年8月18日發(fā)布的一份新報告顯示,在日本這個國家的1.24億人口中,目前有超過十分之一的人年齡在80歲或以上。日本人口快速老齡化迫使政府提高醫(yī)療保健和養(yǎng)老金支出。日本還推出了一系列廣泛的措施來遏制該國出生率的下降。但到目前為止,這些措施未能扭轉(zhuǎn)這一趨勢。