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From the quick report of demographic statistics by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of stillbirth of April. 2013 became larger than April. 2012. The number of April. 2013 was 2,230, the one in 2012 was 2,047.
In Japan, the entire birthrate is decreasing.
Annual stillbirth number and rate have been stably decreasing since 1981.
From the research of Fukushima Diary, this is the first time when stillbirth number became higher than last year in April since 2010.
This may be related to the slight increase of the birthrate. Further investigation for the statistics in May will be required.
↓ Red line shows the stillbirth number of 2013, blue line shows the number of 2012.
↓ 2012 and 2011.
↓ 2011 and 2010
↓ 2010 and 2009
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/list/81-1a.html
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/hw/jinkou/geppo/nengai12/dl/gaikyou24.pdf
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