Chart of the week: a new baby boom for Japan?

Japan's total fertility rate (TFR),the average number of childrena woman has in her lifetime, hasbeen on the rise in recent years,says Robert Sierra in HalkinServices' weekly newsletter.

In any case, the TFR isstill far below the 2.1 required tostabilise the population.

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