The number of babies born in Japan totaled 865,234 in 2019, down 53,166 from the previous year and marking the lowest level on record, government data showed Friday.The nation's total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman will bear in her lifetime -- decreased 0.06 point to 1.36, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.Meanwhile, the number of deaths in the reporting year stood at 1,381,098, the highest since the end of World War II.As a result, the number of deaths outnumbered births by 515,864, marking the biggest margin of fall since comparable data were…READ FULL ARTICLE
