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Historical population of Japan. The demographics of Japan include birth and death rates, age distribution, population density, ethnicity, education level, healthcare system of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects regarding the Japanese population.
One factor that contributed to social mobility in Japan was the rapid economic growth between 1955 and 1985 with Japan’s industrial structure changes. However, after the bubble economy burst in 1990, Japan entered a period of development stagnation known as "The Lost Decade." Therefore, the occupational prestige, education levels, and assets ...
The economy of Japan is a highly developed mixed economy, often referred to as an East Asian model. [24] It is the fourth-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP behind the United States, China, and Germany, and the fifth-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP), below India and Russia but ahead of Germany. [25]
Socioeconomic status has long been related to health, those higher in the social hierarchy typically enjoy better health than those below. [22] Socioeconomic status is an important source of health inequity, as there is a very robust positive correlation between socioeconomic status and health. This correlation suggests that it is not only the ...
Over the past two decades or so, inequality in Japan has grown [21] as a result of economic difficulties that Japan has faced since the end of the economic boom of the 1980s. This problem has been characterised by a rise in the percentage of the workforce employed on a temporary or part-time basis, from 19% in 1996 [ 22 ] to 34.5% in 2009, [ 23 ...
As of December 2015 Japan had 13,831 asylum applications under review. [25] In 2016, more than 10,000 applications for refugee status in Japan were received and in the same year 28 asylum applications were approved. [26] In 2015, more than 7,500 people applied for refugee status and 27 asylum applications were approved.
The majority of Brazilians with Japanese descent have a high socioeconomic status despite their inactivity in politics and smaller demographics. [11] They were viewed in Brazil as a “model minority,” meaning that were looked up upon by other Brazilian natives with their good education and middle class economic status.
Labor force participation rate (15-64 age) in Japan, by sex [2] Gender wage gap in OECD [7]. Japan is now facing a shortage of labor caused by two major demographic problems: a shrinking population because of a low fertility rate, which was 1.4 per woman in 2009, [8] and replacement of the postwar generation which is the biggest population range [9] who are now around retirement age.