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Japan is set to offer free university tuition to families with three or more children starting in 2025.

This initiative is part of a plan to combat the country's declining birth rate and will have no household income ceiling, aiming to reduce educational expenses and encourage families to have more children. It’s also not limited to universities, extending to junior and technical colleges, among other educational institutions.

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has prioritized addressing the declining birth rate amid an aging population, with the number of newborns in 2022 being the lowest since records began in 1899.

Around the world, the fertility rate has fallen from an average of five births per woman in 1950 to 2.3 births per woman in 2021, according to the UN.