benao87 on 23 December 2010
| TheSource said: Pretty stable for the last 20 years. Why? Well look at the Japanese population in 1985 = 121m, vs. 1990 = 124m, 1995 = 126m, 2000 = 127m. 2005 = 128m, 2010 = 127m. The death rate is greater than the birth rate in Japan now - the country is shrinking. In theory though that means the country is getting younger too, which helps explain the portables, as for every one person born something like 1.2 people die (most of them older). |
I'd say its the oposite, the population might be aging. We'll have to check the life expectancy, but it may be getting higher as medicine and technology allow to live longer. And if the birth rate is getting lower, the percentage of old people should increase. Probably that explains the strategy of the DS XL, dunno.
