{"id":9037,"date":"2024-09-16T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T06:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=9037"},"modified":"2024-09-16T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T06:26:34","slug":"japans-elderly-population-hits-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/japans-elderly-population-hits-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan’s elderly population hits record high"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The number of people in Japan aged 65 or older hit a record high of 36.25 million this year, government data shows, as the country contends with one of the world’s fastest-ageing societies.<\/p>\n

The elderly now account for 29.3 percent of Japan’s total population, also a new high, according to data released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The ministry said the proportion of elderly residents put Japan at the top of the list of 200 countries and regions with a population of over 100,000.<\/p>\n

Italy, Portugal, Greece, Finland, Germany and Croatia represented Europe in the top 10, with rates of over 20 percent.\u00a0South Korea stood at 19.3 percent and China 14.7 percent.<\/p>\n

Japan is facing a steadily worsening population crisis, as its expanding elderly population leads to soaring medical and welfare costs, with a shrinking labour force to pay for it.<\/p>\n

The country’s overall population shrank by 595,000 to 124 million, according to previous government data.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s data showed that 9.14 million elderly people were employed in 2023, also a record.<\/p>\n

They represent 13.5 percent of the total workforce — or one employee in seven.<\/p>\n

The Japanese government has attempted to slow the decline and ageing of its population without meaningful success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of people in Japan aged 65 or older hit a record high of 36.25 million this year, government data shows, as the country contends with one of the world’s fastest-ageing societies. The elderly now account for 29.3 percent of Japan’s total population, also a new high, according to data released by the Ministry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9040,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions\/9040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}