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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
TOKYO, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) — Japan's population, which includes only Japanese citizens, continued to decline rapidly in 2024, falling by 908,574 to 120.65 million as of Jan. 1, 2025, according to data released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
Japan's population has been declining for 16 consecutive years. The current decline is the largest since the government began keeping such statistics in 1968. Compared with the peak in 2009, the total population decline has exceeded 6.42 million people.
The main reason is natural population decline: the number of deaths /1,599,850 people/ significantly exceeded the number of births /687,689 people/, which led to a net decrease of 912,161 people.
At the same time, the foreign population increased by 11 percent and reached a record level of 3.68 million people, exceeding the 3.5 million mark for the first time.
Including foreign citizens, Japan's total population was 124.33 million, down 554,485 from the previous year.
Foreign nationals currently make up 2.96 percent of Japan's population, up 0.3 percentage points from the previous year.
The working-age population (15 to 64 years old) remained at 59.8 percent of the total. At the same time, the number of Japanese of working age decreased by more than 500,000 people, while the number of foreign nationals in this category increased by more than 321,000 people, which helped ensure demographic balance. –0–
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