Countries Whose Population Fell in 2017

But that's the total population of the country, not the population lost.

Japan? Growing? Ha! That‘s the first country I‘ve entered! It‘s one of oldest nations and has one of the lowest birth ratios. (Now you know the reason why Japanese want these robots :) )

Aesthus you seem to have a lot of odd ideas about various Asian countries- conflating many of them into the same blob of misconception. Maybe you should take a few weeks or months and take a trip there. Japan would be a good start, but Korea, China, Vietnam, Thailand, India, the Philippines, Israel, Singapore, etc all very distinct, unique places very much worth visiting and getting to know a little better.

When countries first start to become industrialized and developed, at first as things like plentiful food, clean water, and modern hospitals are introduced populations tend to explode as infant mortality rates plummet and life expectancy rises even while birth rates remain high.

As these countries continue to develop and become more industrialized, educated, and urbanized birth rates decline more and more until, usually, populations start to decline, as well.

In some countries such as the United States and a handful in Western Europe, this population decline is offset by healthy economies that encourage larger families and, more importantly, immigration. Eastern Europe is fairly developed but economies there are depressed and families there don't usually have more than 1 kid if they have any at all. It's also losing people to immigration instead of gaining them.