Fertility differentials among municipalities and foreign migrants in Japan

Abstract

Japan has experienced a growth in the number of immigrants and births to foreign mothers for approximately the last three decades. However, the TFR of foreign mothers in Japan has been declining and below that of Japanese mothers in recent years. In this presentation, I will examine foreign migrants' impacts on the number of births and the TFR of municipalities by using census and vital statistic data of Japan from 1990 to 2010.