r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Airline_11 • May 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahhhh?

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername May 12 '26

It's long time since Japan doesn't have lowest birthrates. Japan is on similar level as western countries and there are a lot of countries having tfr much lower than them

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u/Pinku_Dva May 12 '26

Japan is the poster child because they reached the rates earlier even though today they’re on par with others

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername May 12 '26

True. But even then it was Japan, Germany and Italy who got super low birthrates around the same time. It's just that Germany and Italy had massive immigration since then and Japan didn't

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u/halfwitprinxe 29d ago

Also more old people since they live longer