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Japan's total population was 125.41 million, down just over half a million people from a year earlier, and there was a 10.7% jump in foreign residents with addresses registered in Japan, the ...
Japan’s population has been in decline for several years – at the last count in 2022, the population had shrunk by more than 800,000 since the previous year, to 125.4 million.
Why Japan doesn't have as severe of a housing crisis as the US Japan is something of an outlier when it comes to housing affordability for a few major reasons: population decline and deregulated ...
An abandoned house in Yubari district, Hokkaido: an area which has suffered sharp population decline. Though Japan's natural increase turned negative as early as 2005, [37] the 2010 census result figure was slightly higher, at just above 128 million, [38] than the 2005 census. Factors implicated in the puzzling figures were more Japanese ...
In 2014, 26% of Japan's population was estimated to be 65 years or older, [29] and the Health and Welfare Ministry has estimated that over-65s will account for 40% of the population by 2060. [33] The demographic shift in Japan's age profile has triggered concerns about the nation's economic future and the viability of its welfare state. [34]
These trends resulted in the decline of Japan's population after reaching a peak of 128.1 million in October 2008. [6] In 2014, Japan's population was estimated to be 127 million. This figure is expected to shrink to 107 million (by 16%) by 2040 and to 97 million (by 24%) by 2050 if this current demographic trend continues. [7]
As of Jan. 1, 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, there were 2.87 million foreigners living in Japan. Japan's total population fell to 125.42 million, a decrease of ...
Population decline can impact the funding for programs for retirees if the ratio of working age population to the retired population declines. For example, in Japan, there were 5.8 workers for every retiree in 1990 vs 2.3 in 2017 and a projected 1.4 in 2050. [ 10 ]