Saturday 27 February 2016

Japan Census: Population Fell Nearly 1 Million in 2010-15

Japan Census: Population Fell Nearly 1 Million in 2010-15

Japan's latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking. Japan's population stood at 127.1 million last fall, down 0.7 percent from 128.1 million in 2010, according to results of the 2015 census, released Friday. The 947,000 decline in the population in the last five years was the first since the once-every-five-years count started in 1920.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/TNY/japan-census-population-fell-nearly-1-million-in-2010-15

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