Disaster Japan’s seniors now a record 29.1% of population

Japan's seniors now a record 29.1% of population - La Prensa Latina Media

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Tokyo, Sep 20 (EFE).- About 29.1 percent of Japan’s population is aged 65 years or older and accounts for 13.6 percent of the country’s workforce, both record figures, the government announced on Respect for the Aged Day on Monday.

The number of people aged 65 and above in the country was 36.4 million as of September, an increase of 220,000 people over the previous year, according to the figures of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and Communications.

Japanese men aged 65 years and over account for 15.83 million, while women of the same age group account for 20.57 million, according to the ministry’s data.

Japan has the oldest population in the world, followed by Italy (23.6 percent) and Portugal (23.1 percent), according to the United Nations.

There are 12.06 million Japanese aged 80 years and above, an increase of 460,000 with respect to previous data, and those over the age of 90 have reached 2.59 million, among them more than 86,500 centenarians, another record for the country.

Demographic data shows that Japan is a rapidly aging society, a phenomena that is going to continue to intensify, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research.

The agency forecasts that those over 65 will account for 30 percent of the Japanese population by 2025 and 35.3 percent by 2040.

This demographic group represents 13.6 percent or 9.06 million of the employed people in the country, of which 3.67 million are women.

The wholesale and retail industry employs the most people aged 65 years and above, with 1.28 million senior workers, followed by agriculture and forestry, with 1.06 million.

The proportion of employed senior citizens has reached 25.1 percent, the second highest among the world’s major economies, only behind South Korea, where the percentage is 34.1 percent, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. EFE

 

[Ser Prize]

This seems like an issue that'll solve itself with little immigration. Let the boomers die off, let the younger people move up to replace them. Then they can afford kids.

 

[Weed Eater]

Reminder that Jap couples can die from the adrenaline rush of sex.

At this point they're a lost cause.

 

[legtard respecter]

most of the countries that trail behind japan seem to be in europe, italy is 2nd place with 23%
using this as a reference

 

[Ser Prize]

Reminder that Jap couples can die from the adrenaline rush of sex.

At this point they're a lost cause.

I don't think most couples wait 7 years then go on a bender to screw.

 

[Cool Username]

most of the countries that trail behind japan seem to be in europe, italy is 2nd place with 23%
using this as a reference

Italy is literally the land of the nonni

 

[Cabelaz]

I dontthink its very good for society when a quarter of it can just not wake up tomorrow

 

[Weed Eater]

I don't think most couples wait 7 years then go on a bender to screw.

But they do. Most of the time Japanese men and women literally say they "can't be bothered" with things like sex or marriage. There's no time for it when you think about the work culture, but it's beyond that even.

They can't fucking socialize. Japanese men are too weird or "incel"-like to want to try and give dating a chance. Women are the exact same way, too shy/reserved, or they expect men to make the first move, or they simply "can't be bothered" because it's too much work in the socialization aspect. It's why prostitution thrives in Japan, it's easier to pay for sex than it is to "work for it". Why work for anything when you are constantly working as it is? Especially when buying some time with a prostitute is as cheap as getting lunch.

 

[Synthetic Smug]

They'll just build more robots.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

But they do. Most of the time Japanese men and women literally say they "can't be bothered" with things like sex or marriage. There's no time for it when you think about the work culture, but it's beyond that even.

They can't fucking socialize. Japanese men are too weird or "incel"-like to want to try and give dating a chance. Women are the exact same way, too shy/reserved, or they expect men to make the first move, or they simply "can't be bothered" because it's too much work in the socialization aspect. It's why prostitution thrives in Japan, it's easier to pay for sex than it is to "work for it". Why work for anything when you are constantly working as it is? Especially when buying some time with a prostitute is as cheap as getting lunch.

Never mind the hostess clubs and the like. If, in between travel, work, and the like, you've got about eightish hours to eat, sleep, and bathe in five or six days a week, how are you ever going to find the time if you're not just paying for it. I'm pretty sure it's why most anime gravitate to high school, maybe college. It's the only time they have anything approaching free time before the soul crushing work starts, so it's just part of the escapism.

I'm sure there's corners where it's not so bad, but we're talking about a culture that has people that work themselves to death regularly enough to have a word for it. I don't even know if Germans are that grim.

 

[Haramburger]

I dontthink its very good for society when a quarter of it can just not wake up tomorrow

They should be so lucky.

 

[Samir]

Does Israel know about this

 

[Maurice Caine]

At this rate they'll really start growing children in vats.

 

[Long Tongue Silver]

At this rate they'll really start growing children in vats.

Look on the bright side: at least they'll maintain ethnic purity and perhaps even engineer certain genetic flaws and conditions out of existence.

 

[Niggernerd]

What ruins society more? Progressivism or Anime?

Progressivism

 

[Titos]

We should send all the incels to japan

It's a pretty commonly known thing that it's incredibly easy to get dates in Japan as long as it's around Christmas time, just walk up to a random chick who is alone and ask to take her out on a date and they'll most likely say yes. Sending incels there wouldn't stop them from being incels though because their problem is being lazy faggots who don't approach women, not their looks.

 

[TowinKarz]

This seems like an issue that'll solve itself with little immigration. Let the boomers die off, let the younger people move up to replace them. Then they can afford kids
The best thing about 2D girls is that you can't knock them up.

Well, not without the right DLC you can't.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Neither want to have sex with each other.

More women for me.

 

[Michael Janke]

it's actually worse if we extend the logic. 29% of the population are senior citizens but thats usually a designation of 65 years old or more.
probably something crazy like 50% is over the age of 35.
this is bad when you consider a womans prime birthing years for healthy children is between the ages of 18 and 30.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

They can't fucking socialize. Japanese men are too weird or "incel"-like to want to try and give dating a chance. Women are the exact same way, too shy/reserved, or they expect men to make the first move, or they simply "can't be bothered" because it's too much work in the socialization aspect.

Hey, wait a second, this is America.

...Well, the men here long for relationships but get duped into simping on account of their social ineptitude, and the women are increasingly more content with creating parasitic parasocial relationships to milk said men.

So, I guess we're just waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Now that I think about it, our own birthrate is flagging, but it's not nearly as bad as what we're seeing in Japan. I'm considering that the fact that we don't have as developed a prostitution culture as Japan does (due in part to its illegality, our lack of creativity in skirting the prohibitions, and the fact that our strumpets are both ugly on average and have excessively high self-esteem for their station) has been a mitigating factor in our not keeping up with Japan's social separation.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

A broken work culture that limits how much time and energy people can devote to conceiving/raising children, along with the standard increase in child-raising costs seen across all developed societies.

Get back in your wage cage. Any time spent trying to start a family is time that can be spent being a good worker drone and ensuring my retirement goes comfortably. Something something economy.