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Something blue: Pandemic wedding plunge adds to Japan demographic woes Reuters 2/22/2021 By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - The number of marriages in Japan tumbled amid the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the health ministry said on Monday, likely adding to the wealthy nation s low birth rate and ageing population problems. Japan last year saw 537,583 marriages, a 12.7% fall from a year earlier - the biggest percentage drop since a 15.1% tumble in 1950, when a post-World War Two marriage boom began to fizzle out, the ministry said. Unlike in some Western countries, in Japan only a few out of every 100 babies are born out of wedlock, suggesting a stronger correlation between the number of marriages and the number of babies born. ....
A mother cradles her newborn in Satte, Saitama Prefecture, in May. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Births in Japan are projected to fall to below 800,000 in 2021, according to an analyst, citing fears the novel coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the decline in the nation s birthrate. The estimate is based on reports of fewer pregnancies this year. For 2020, fewer than 850,000 births are anticipated, or about 17,000 less than the previous year and the least since 1899 when records were first kept, the health ministry said. Preliminary figures from January to October this year suggest an annual decrease of 2.3 percent. The ministry usually releases an estimate of the population and number of live births at the end of each year. ....