A lady holding her great-grandmother’s hand. Japan has one of many world’s most quickly growing older societies.
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A lady holding her great-grandmother’s hand. Japan has one of many world’s most quickly growing older societies.
Yusuke Murata/Getty Pictures
SEOUL – A brand new survey has discovered that the majority Japanese would, in truth, not slightly stay till 100 regardless of what the federal government advises.
The net survey, commissioned by the Japan Hospice Palliative Care Basis in Osaka, requested roughly 500 males and 500 girls the query: would you prefer to stay past 100?
The respondents had been of their 20s to 70s. Amongst them, 72% of male respondents and 84% of feminine respondents mentioned they do not assume they’d prefer to stay that lengthy.
The commonest clarification given, at 59%, was that they did not wish to hassle their household or others to take care of them.
The Mainichi Shimbun studies that the muse was “shocked” that so few folks wish to stay so lengthy, and so they’re involved about how Japan will assist these going through demise.
“Because the ‘100-year-life age’ turns into extra of a actuality, folks might have begun to query whether or not they’re actually pleased with that,” a consultant of the muse advised Japanese media, in line with the report.
Japan has one of many world’s most quickly growing older societies. However additionally it is one of many prime 5 international locations with the longest life expectancy at start.
In response to Japan’s Ministry of Well being, Labor and Welfare, the variety of centenarians, folks aged 100 or older, in Japan reached 90,526 as of Sept., 2022. This represented 72.13 centenarians per 100,000 inhabitants. It was additionally a rise of practically 4,000 from September the earlier yr.
Beginning charges are slowing in lots of Asian international locations, together with China. In Japan, the federal government estimated that the variety of births had dropped beneath 800,000 final yr. This led to prime minister Fumio Kishida to declare that the low birthrate and growing older inhabitants pose an enormous danger to society.
“Japan is standing on the verge of whether or not we will proceed to perform as a society,” Kishida mentioned in January. “Focusing consideration on insurance policies concerning kids and child-rearing is a matter that can’t wait and can’t be postponed.”
Kishida mentioned on the time {that a} blueprint for doubling spending on supporting households elevating kids could be out by June this yr.
