The estimated population of children under 15 stood at 13.29 million in Japan as of April 1, down for the 45th straight year, the internal affairs ministry said Monday.<\/p>\n
The child population, down 350,000 from a year earlier, again fell to the lowest level since 1950, when data comparable under the current format started. The ministry’s announcement preceded Children’s Day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The population stood at 6.81 million for boys and 6.48 million for girls. The share of children in the country’s total population fell 0.3 percentage point to 10.8%, dropping for the 52nd consecutive year to rewrite its record low again.<\/p>\n
The proportion is the second lowest among 38 countries with total populations exceeding 40 million, only behind South Korea’s 10.2%, based on data adopting a different survey period. Japan was followed by Italy at 11.7% and by Spain at 12.6%.<\/p>\n
Of the child population in Japan, 3.09 million were between ages 12 and 14, 2.96 million between 9 and 11, 2.68 million between 6 and 8, 2.43 million between 3 and 5, and 2.13 million between zero and 2.<\/p>\n
The estimates are based on the results of the 2020 census. The population of children by prefecture, based on the results of the 2025 census, will be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The estimated population of children under 15 stood at 13.29 million in Japan as of April 1, down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2515,8,13420],"class_list":{"0":"post-16847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-population"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}