期刊全称 | A Shrinking Society | 期刊简称 | Post-Demographic Tra | 影响因子2023 | Toshihiko Hara | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Focuses on Japan as a shrinking society, a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century.Clarifies the historical background of the aging and decline of Japan’s population in the context of demo | 学科分类 | SpringerBriefs in Population Studies | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan. The meaning of this phenomenon has been successfully clarified as the possible historical consequence of the demographic transition from high birth and death rates to low ones. Japan has entered the post-demographic transitional phase and will be the fastest-shrinking society in the world, leading other Asian countries that are experiencing the same drastic changes. The author used the historical statistics, compiled by the Statistic Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in 2006 and population projections for released in 2012 by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, to show the past and future development of the dependency ratio from 1891 to 2060. Then, utilizing the population life table and net reproduction rate, the effects of increasing life expectancy and declining fertility on the dependency ratio were observed separately. Finally, the historical relationships among women’s survival rates at reproductive age, the theoretical fertility rate to maintain the repla | Pindex | Book 2015 |
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