Population Decline

Do Japanese People Not Want Children? | An Ideal of 2.25 Against a Reality of 1.14

Japan sits in the darkest red on the global fertility gap map. But that map measures the distance between desired and actual children, not low fertility itself. Japanese couples name 2.25 as ideal; the fertility rate is 1.14. They are not choosing against children. They are constrained, and constraints are design problems.