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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Population of Japan

It's over 127 million. That's seventh in the world after China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, and Russia. The population density is about 865 persons per square mile or 334 per square kilometer. That figure is one of the highest in the world. When their first census was taken in 1920, the population was 56 million. It's more than doubled since then.

They have eleven cities with a population of over one million. The largest, of course, is Tokyo. If you include the suburbs, it has about twelve million people. It's one of the largest cities in the world.

Most of the population is urban. Between seventy-five and eighty percent of all Japanese live in urban areas. The cities and their surroundings are extremely crowded. But now demographers see a slight trend of movement away from the urban areas.

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