Japan’s population plummets; nearly 1 million lost in a year. Fertility at record low, 1.2 children per woman. Collapse looms for the West.

Japan's population is collapsing.

In the past year Japan lost nearly a million people as fertility falls to a record 1.2 children per woman.

At that pace, if you start with 100 million people, after 3 generations you're down to just 20 million.

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