Older than South Florida…
Friday, November 23rd, 2007I often remind audiences that, with the rebellion of Japanese women against marriage and child-bearing, Japan will someday make South Florida look young.
Here’s new data from the Japanese government confirming that the nation is graying even faster that predicted, courtesy of Kyodo News Service:
People 75 and older now constitute 10 percent of the population, the government said Wednesday, underscoring the rapid growth in Japan’s elderly.
The figure was 1.3 percent in 1950, when the government first started tracking such data, and rose to 5 percent in 1991 before breaking the 10 percent mark this year, the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry said.
As of Nov. 1, Japan’s population was estimated at 127.79 million, with 12.76 million — 4.79 million men and 7.97 million women — aged 75 or older.
The ministry compiled the estimates on the basis of the 2005 census and data on births and deaths in subsequent years.
Men aged 75 or older account for 7.7 percent of the male population, while their female counterparts account for 12.2 percent of all of Japan’s women.