The number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low of 811,604 in 2021, declining faster than the government anticipated, according to data released Friday.The decline of 29,231 from the previous year means the country's annual newborns have already fallen to the level that the government's 2017 study forecast for 2027.According to the health ministry, which began collecting such data in 1899, the average number of children a woman is estimated to bear in her lifetime declined by 0.03 point from 2020 to 1.30, while the number of marriages decreased by 24,391 to 501,116, the fewest in th…READ FULL ARTICLE
