Last year, the number of births in Gunma Prefecture fell below 10,000 for the first time.

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Last year, the number of births in Gunma Prefecture fell below 10,000 for the first time.

On the 5th, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced the 2023 vital statistics.
According to this, the number of births in Gunma Prefecture in 2023 fell by 738 compared to the previous year to 9,950, falling below 10,000 for the first time. 
This is the lowest number since statistics began being kept in 1907.
The natural decrease, calculated by subtracting the number of births from the number of deaths, also reached a record high of 16,792, and the rate of population decline is accelerating.