Live births registered in Japan; national total, 2024.
Japan registered 686,061 live births in 2024. The total was 5.7% lower than 727,277 in 2023. It was the first annual total below 700,000 in the official national series and far below the 1973 peak of 2,091,983. All values use Japan’s official vital-statistics measure of live births.
Source 1: Vital Statistics — live births, 2024
Publisher: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Dataset/table: Japan Vital Statistics
Evidence: Supports the 2024 birth total of 686,061 and the year-on-year decline.
The 2024 total is the lowest since national records began in 1899. The 1973 peak of about 2.09 million births is shown for context.
The figure is the national count of live births in 2024 from official vital statistics, compared with the prior year and the long-run record.
Single official source and single year for the headline value.
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