Number of live births Japan 2021, by birth order

Published by Statista Research Department, Dec 8, 2022
In 2021, 372 thousand newborns were the first child of the mother, accounting for the majority of births in Japan. In around 294 thousand cases, mothers gave birth to their second child.

Number of live births in Japan in 2021, by birth order (in 1,000s)

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September 2022

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Japan

Survey time period

2021

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