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Nagi: Japan's miracle town - Boom

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Where 47% of families have 3 children

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida says that declining birth rates are “the biggest crisis Japan faces”. Japan currently has a Total Fertility Rate of 1.2 children per woman and is ageing very rapidly, predicted to lose half its population by 2100. Between 1990 and 2023, the number of under 15s in Japan decreased by 35%, while the number of over 65s increased by 144%. But as Japan’s birth rate has remained stubbornly low over the past twenty years, one community has successfully doubled its own. Nagi is a town in the Okayama Prefecture of Japan, with a population of only 5,700 people.…

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