Japan’s shrinking population
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According to a recent Japan Times report, the country’s population growth has slowed to the point where people leaving Japan on holiday can skew figures in such a way that it appears the population has shrunk.
Japan’s population shrinks for first time in history
Japan’s population has grown so little since last year that an exodus of travelers abroad during the holiday season in May triggered the first-ever fall in the country’s year-on-year monthly population, according to government data obtained this week.
The final estimated population on May 1 was down 50,000 from a year earlier to 127.56 million, marking the first decrease since the government began compiling monthly population counts in 1950, according to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.
Under the ministry’s calculations, travelers who leave Japan for overseas sightseeing trips are also counted as having moved abroad and are thus deducted from the total population.
Are people arriving in Japan for holiday counted as having moved here…?
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2004.10.30 (Sat) • 13:55
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Posted by digits 2004.10.31, 03:22
Heh… we have like 8million here in Sweden, in alles… In my town it’s about 4500 citizens, which probably counts as an suburb to a suburb to a town in Japan…
Posted by brent 2004.10.31, 15:37
dgits—or the amount of fruit loops someone consumed for breakfast.
I’m missed it but a friend told me that on a local Tokyo t.v. this week a reporter came up with the statistical might (as in mightier than the…) that if the population, here, were to continue its accelerative drop, by the year 3,000, sweet Japan, the place I call my home, will have a population of just 1. That’s right folks, ‘1’ — statistics never really worked for me, either!
Happy three, there!
Posted by sokoniiru 2005.01.17, 01:35
that statistic was from the show Toribia no izumi (Fountain of Trivia).
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