{"id":26726,"date":"2018-12-24T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26726"},"modified":"2018-12-24T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:22:16","slug":"japan-suffers-biggest-natural-population-decline-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26726","title":{"rendered":"Japan suffers biggest natural population decline ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Japan suffered its biggest natural population decline ever this year, government statistics show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The fast-graying nation also posted a record-low birthrate, as the estimated number of babies born in 2018 dipped to 921,000 &#8212; the lowest since records began in 1899 &#8212; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhlw.go.jp\/toukei\/saikin\/hw\/jinkou\/suikei18\/dl\/2018gaiyou.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report<\/a> published Friday by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The number of newborns is estimated to have shrunk by 25,000 from 2017, and the figure remains under the 1 million mark for the third year running.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Japan suffered its biggest natural population decline ever this year, government statistics show.The fast-graying nation also posted a record-low birthrate, as the estimated number of babies born in 2018 dipped to 921,000 &#8212; the lowest since records began in 1899 &#8212; according to a report published Friday by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}