PAPP101 - S03: How demographers think about populations: age and sex

The age structural transition (cont.)

Fertility decline in Japan

Following World War 2, the total fertility rate (TFR) in Japan first declined to approximately replacement level. After a pause in the decline, TFR continued to drop from the late 1970s and soon fell far below replacement level fertility.

Total fertility rate for Japan, 1950-2010.

Source: UN Population Division (2011)