Japan's population including foreign residents fell 0.7 percent from 2015 to 126,226,568 as of Oct. 1, 2020, dropping out of the world's top 10 in size for the first time since 1950, the latest census ...

The population of Japan (including non-Japanese) stood at 122,626,568 as of October 1, 2020. Preliminary figures for the 2020 census, announced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ...

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.

After hovering around zero growth in the late 2000s, Japan’s population has been shrinking since 2010, with the decline accelerating in recent years. Breaking its own record every year for the last 10 ...

Foreign residents, including students and workers residing in Japan for more than three months, are forecast to comprise 10.8% of the population at 9.4 million in 2070, expanding from 2.2% in 2020 ...

Between 2000–10, the country’s population aged 65 and over increased by an unprecedented 7 million. This population is likely to increase by another 7 million by 2020.

Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, as well as one of the highest life expectancies; in 2020, nearly one in 1,500 people in Japan were age 100 or older, according to government data.

Japan saw nearly 1 million more deaths than births in 2024, marking the country’s steepest single-year population decline since the government surveys began nearly six decades ago. In 2009, Japan’s ...

ANKARA Japan's already dwindling population in 2070 is expected to fall to 87 million, shrinking 30% from its level in 2020, an official report said on Wednesday.