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[12] [13] Over the period of 2010 to 2015, the population shrank by almost a million, [14] and Japan lost a half-million in 2022 alone. [15] The number of Japanese citizens decreased by 801,000 to 122,423,038 in 2022 from a year earlier, which was the most severe decrease and the first time all 47 prefectures have suffered a decline since the ...
This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, total projected population from the United Nations [1] and the latest official figure. Map [ edit ]
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
500 million 1933 1966 2065 (est.) 2091 (est.) 600 million 1954 1974 2074 (est.) 700 million 1964 1981 2086 (est.) 750 million 1967 1984 2094 (est.) 800 million 1969 1987 2101 (est.) 900 million 1974 1992 2114 (est.) 1 billion 1981 1997 2129 (est.) 1.1 billion 1988 2002 - 1.2 billion 1995 2008 - 1.3 billion 2003 2014 - 1.4 billion 2017 2022 -
The capital city, Tokyo, has a population of 13.9 million (2022). [244] It is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the biggest metropolitan area in the world with 37.4 million people (2024). [245] Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society, [246] with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population. [247]
A day after Japan released its preliminary data this week, South Korea released its own figures showing its fertility rate – the world’s lowest – dropped yet again in 2023.
Japan’s population crisis is accelerating, with the number of nationals falling by more than 800,000 in the past year – echoing similar trends seen in other East Asian countries.
Population in the following table is given according to the de facto population concept for enumerating the people. Source: Extraordinary Census of Japan (as of October 1, 1947), Population Census of Japan (as of April 26, 1946, November 1, 1945 and February 22, 1944), Census of Japan (as of October 1 for the years of 1940, 1935, 1930, 1925 and ...