Japan Population Pyramid 2018

Japan
2018
Population: 126,913,432

Year

-5 -1   2018  +1 +5

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Japan in 2018

As of 2018, Japan counted 126,913,433 inhabitants. That is 1.0% less than in 2008, when the population stood at 128,155,990. With a median age of 48.0 years, Japan had a youth dependency ratio of 21.1 and an old-age dependency ratio of 47.9 per 100 people of working age. The pyramid is constrictive: cohorts of children are smaller than those of their parents, reflecting low fertility and an ageing population.

Share of the population by age group, 1950–2100

Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.


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