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**Lypepuddyu** · 10-05-2011, 07:20 PM

There is also this to consider: China pursued, and maybe is still pursuing, population control very aggressively with its "One Child Policy". And now its population is aging... soon there will be more old people than young ones.

I have also heard that in Japan schools were closed due to the *lack of children* ... it's almost unimaginable. But maybe it's due to migration from small towns to big cities rather than any drastic drop in birthrate. Singapore used to have a "Stop at Two" campaign to limit family sizes, and now is belatedly reversing it...

So... China and Far East Asia rises for a while, then stalls because there are not enough young people...

wrwb, Japan has 'negative' population growth

http://geography.about.com/od/popula...phy/a/zero.htm

Japan is the only non-European country in the list and it has a 0% natural birth increase and is expected to lose 21% of its population by 2050 (shrinking from 127.8 million to a mere 100.6 million in 2050). The streets of Tokyo won’t be as crowded in a few decades as they are today!

10-05-2011, 07:20 PM	#39
Lypepuddyu Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 613 Senior Member	There is also this to consider: China pursued, and maybe is still pursuing, population control very aggressively with its "One Child Policy". And now its population is aging... soon there will be more old people than young ones. I have also heard that in Japan schools were closed due to the lack of children ... it's almost unimaginable. But maybe it's due to migration from small towns to big cities rather than any drastic drop in birthrate. Singapore used to have a "Stop at Two" campaign to limit family sizes, and now is belatedly reversing it... So... China and Far East Asia rises for a while, then stalls because there are not enough young people... wrwb, Japan has 'negative' population growth http://geography.about.com/od/popula...phy/a/zero.htm Japan is the only non-European country in the list and it has a 0% natural birth increase and is expected to lose 21% of its population by 2050 (shrinking from 127.8 million to a mere 100.6 million in 2050). The streets of Tokyo won’t be as crowded in a few decades as they are today!
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