Japan’s savings rate turns negative for first time

For the first time since records were collected in 1955, Japan's population is drawing down its savings and the savings rate, calculated as savings divided by disposable income plus pension payments, was negative 1.3%. It's a dramatic change from when the Japanese saved nearly a quarter of their income (23.1%) when the savings rate peaked in 1975. Japan had the highest household saving rate in the

[Murakami]

こうなってもまだ鎖国し続ける日本。移民とか資本とか、できることはたくさんある。なぜ何もしないのだろう。

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[fujikumo]

1955年に統計が始まって以来のことだが、人口構成の高齢化により、初めて日本の貯蓄率がマイナスを記録。貯蓄率とは、直近の額を、可処分所得と年金を足したもので割った比率で。1975年のピーク時の23.1%から、-1.3%に