Japan's fertility rate rose 0.02 point to 1.39 in 2010, after leveling off for two years, thanks to an increase in births among women in their late 30s and a rise in the number of women with more than one child, population data released by the health ministry showed Wednesday.
The total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman will bear over her lifetime -- rose after hitting a record low of 1.26 in 2005 and remaining flat at 1.37 in 2008 and 2009, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
In 2010, birthrates among women in their late teens and early 20s dropped but rose among those between their late 20s and late 40s, it said.
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