TOKYO -- Japan saw its first net population increase from immigration in two years in 2022, official data released Wednesday shows, but this failed to head off a 12th straight year of decline in the overall working-age population.
The number of people aged 15 to 64 fell 0.4% on the year to 74.21 million as of Oct. 1. While the demographic segment edged up 0.03 percentage points as a share of the population to 59.39%, the trend is still toward a dire shortage of the workers at the core of Japan's economy.
