The annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce of children in Japan has fallen to its annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce number since annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce began. There were 170,000 fewer children in Japan at the annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce of March 2018 than there were a year annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce . Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications issued a annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce on Friday showing the falling numbers of children. According to the statistics, the number of children aged 14 or under dropped for the 37th annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce year. There was another record fall in the ratio of children to the overall Japanese annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce . This dropped to a new record low of 12.3 per cent and was the 44th year of decline in a annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce . This ratio is the lowest among countries in the world with a population of 40 million or annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce . Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been trying to address the country's dwindling annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce rate. He has introduced several annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce to encourage lower-income families to have annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce families. However, these measures seem to be having little annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce . This is coupled with the fact that fewer Japanese people are getting married, which demographers say is a " annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce time-bomb" for Japan. The number of annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce births in 2016 fell below one million for the annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce time since the government began collecting annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce in 1899. Japanese annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce predict that by 2050, Japan will have 23 per cent fewer citizens. This means a rapidly aging society and a greatly diminishing annual bigger birth consecutive data demographers earlier end first lowest measures more number population records report row success ticking workforce .