TOKYO (Reuters) – Private sector advisers to Japanese premier Yoshihide Suga warned on Monday that the country’s birthrate was declining at a faster pace amid the coronavirus crisis, saying that society should have a “sense of crisis” about it.
The four advisers of the 11-member Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, Japan’s top economic advisory panel, warned of the possibility 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.
(Reporting by Daniel Leussink; Editing by Catherine Evans)
