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“Japan’s 2021 figure was 0.81.”

Actually no, that’s Korea’s figure. Korea is the only major country whose birth rate is below 1.0. Japan’s birth rate in 2021 was 1.30

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01350/amp/

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Thank you for the note. We have made a correction -- eds.

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