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Japan: Demographic Crisis

Asia and Africa Today, 2023
Japan has been adversely affected by the COVID-19pandemic which has had a negative impact on the demographics in the country in dramatic ways : the number of births in Japan has been on a downtrend since the government started compiling statistics on births in 1899 and this downtrend is expected to continue for years to come.
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The Demographic Crisis in Europe

2021
By most accounts, Europe has been mired in a ‘demographic crisis’ since about 1970. By a demographic crisis is meant that Europe’s dependency ratio is increasing, and the net result has been declining populations and fewer workers to sustain society. However, there are certain issues that need attention. Two topics seem to capture some of these issues:
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The Demographic Crisis in Belarus

Problems of Post-Communism, 2000
Is Belarus doomed, as some of its demographers fear, to become depopulated and “disappear” from Central Europe?
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A demographic crisis averted?

Scandinavian Economic History Review, 1976
Abstract Population statistics for pre-industrial Norway indicate that in many years deaths exceeded births; this was due to a sharp short-term increase in the number of deaths. Information about the reasons is usually unreliable or totally non-existent.
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Transformation as a demographic crisis

1997
Recently, considerable attention has been given to demographic developments in the transformation countries (UNICEF 1993, 1994 and 1995; Eberstadt, 1994; Ellman, 1994; Shapiro, 1995; Heleniak, 1995). This is entirely understandable in view of the completely unexpected and very dramatic changes which have taken place.
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Russia faces demographic crisis

BMJ, 1996
This brief news article discusses the severe imbalance between births and deaths in Russia since 1990. In the first 6 months of 1996 there were twice as many deaths as births. In Moscow between January and July 1996 there were 34356 births and 66586 deaths.
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Towards a Critical Sociology of the “Demographic Crisis”

Sociological Problems Journal, 2021
The article focuses on the “demographic crisis” as a field of knowledge, where actors with heterogenous knowledge resources operationalize the government of labour power. One of the main assumptions here is that the delineation of low economic productivity as an effect of demographic collapses, catastrophes and crises undergoes a process of translation
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DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS IN MODERN RUSSIA

MOSCOW ECONOMIC JOURNAL
The demographic situation in Russia requires close attention and analysis due to the relevance and significance of the socio–economic consequences. The article examines the problem of the demographic crisis in modern Russia. The current causes of the demographic crisis and the decline in the birth rate are considered.
Marina Sheyhova, Svetlana Safonova
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Alcohol and Narcotics as Factors of the Demographic Crisis

Sociological Research, 2008
(2008). Alcohol and Narcotics as Factors of the Demographic Crisis. Sociological Research: Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 18-31.
D. A. Khalturina, A. V. Korotaev
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[Reforms and demographic crisis].

Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii meditsinskikh nauk, 2002
During reformation years all basic medical and demographic indices have undergone negative changes in Russia. Since 1992 there has been a steady-state decrease in the population due to the fact that mortality rates are extremely greater than birth ones. In 2001, the Russian population reduced in number by nearly a million.
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