10% of the population Japan Surpassed 80 years and the country once again broke the centenary recordMore than 92,000, according to data published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs ahead of the Respect for Elderly Day celebrations this Monday.
By September 15, according to government demographic forecasts There were approximately 12.69 million people aged 80 and over in Japanreached one tenth of the total for the first time.
Approximately 36.23 million people residing in the country are aged 65 and over. It represents 29.1% of the population, an increase of 0.1% compared to the previous year, according to data published on the occasion of this national holiday celebrated on the third Monday of September.
Approximately 56.6% of this figure consists of women (20.51 million or 32.1% of the female population of the entire country), while 15.72 million men were over 65 years of age, compared to 26% of the male population of the archipelago.
According to estimates by the National Population and Social Security Research Institute of Japan People over the age of 65 will represent 34.8% of the Japanese population by 2040.
Asian country sprayed once again centuries-old human records, estimated at approximately 92,139 According to the data of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare, 88.5% of them are women.
2023 was the fifty-third consecutive annual increase of this figure, and shows that the country is aging rapidlyIt is home to 73.74 centenarians per 100,000 people.
Japan’s oldest person is a woman Fusa Tatsumi, 116 years old and resides in Osaka prefecture (west).
When this data began being collected in 1963, there were 153 centenarians in Japan. It exceeded a thousand in 1981 and 10,000 in 1998. The increase in life expectancy that experts attribute mainly to the development of medical technologies and treatments.
Aging workforce
The aging of the workforce also leads to the aging of the workforce in the country. People aged 65 and over represented approximately 13.6% maximum of the total.
According to government estimates, 50.8% of people aged 65-69 continue to workThe rate of those aged 70-74 is 33.5 percent.
The aging of the workforce is particularly evident in the Japanese agricultural sector. 52.5 percent of employees are over 65 years old.