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Private sector advisers to Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga warned on Monday that Japan’s birth rate is declining at a faster pace amid the coronavirus crisis, saying that society should have a “sense of crisis” about it.
The four advisers in the 11-member Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy (CEFP), Japan’s top economic advisory panel, cited the possibility that the world’s third-largest economy may see fewer than 800,000 births this year, 10 years ahead of a projection by a government research institute.
