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Figures here are according to the official estimates of Japan as of October 1, 2011, [3] except for the census population held on October 1, 2010. [4] Population is given according to the de jure population concept for enumerating the people.
The 2010 census shows 90.7% of the total Japanese population live in cities. [29] Japan is an urban society with about only 5% of the labor force working in agriculture. Many farmers supplement their income with part-time jobs in nearby towns and cities. About 80 million of the urban population is heavily concentrated on the Pacific shore of ...
Japan has a population of nearly 124 million as of 2024, and is the eleventh-most populous country. Its capital and largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 38 million inhabitants as of 2016. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions.
A city designated by government ordinance (政令指定都市, seirei shitei toshi), also known as a designated city (指定都市, shitei toshi) or government ordinance city (政令市, seirei shi), is a Japanese city that has a population greater than 500,000 and has been designated as such by an order of the cabinet of Japan under Article ...
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
In the census of December 1939, the total population of the South Seas Mandate was 129,104, of which 77,257 were Japanese. By December 1941, Saipan had a population of more than 30,000 people, including 25,000 Japanese. [82] There are Japanese people in Palau, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands.
The population of Japan peaked at 128,083,960 in 2008, and as of December 2020 it had fallen below 126 million. [293] In 2011, China surpassed Japan as the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP. [294]
Citizenship of foreigners in Japan in 2000. Source: Japan Statistics Bureau [3] About 2.3% of Japan's total legal resident population are foreign citizens. Of these, according to 2020 data from the Japanese government, the principal groups are as follows. [4] [5] [6]