{"id":17727,"date":"2024-09-17T17:19:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=17727"},"modified":"2024-09-17T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T16:19:17","slug":"japanese-population-above-100-years-surpasses-95000-for-54th-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/japanese-population-above-100-years-surpasses-95000-for-54th-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese population above 100 years surpasses 95,000 for 54th consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"
September 17, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has hit a record high of more than 95,000, almost 90 per cent of them women, government data showed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The figures further highlight the slow-burning demographic crisis gripping the world’s fourth-biggest economy as its population ages and shrinks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As of September 1, Japan had 95,119 centenarians, up 2,980 year-on-year, with 83,958 of them women and 11,161 men, the health ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On Sunday separate government data showed that the number of over-65s has hit a record high of 36.25 million, accounting for 29.3 percent of Japan’s population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The proportion puts Japan at the top of a list of 200 countries and regions with a population of over 100,000 people, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said.<\/p>\n ALSO READ:\u00a0Dangote denies selling petrol to NNPC at N898, says transactions made in dollars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Japan is currently home to the world’s oldest living person Tomiko Itooka, who was born on May 23, 1908 and is 116 years old, according to the US-based Gerontology Research Group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The previous record-holder, Maria Branyas Morera, died last month in Spain at the age of 117.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Itooka lives in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture in western Japan, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She often says “thank you” to the nursing home staff and expresses nostalgia about her hometown, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “I have no idea at all about what’s the secret of my long life,” Japan’s oldest man, Kiyotaka Mizuno, who is 110, told local media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mizuno, who lives in Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture in central Japan with his family, gets up at 6:30 am every morning and eats three meals a day — without being picky about his food.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n His hobby is listening to live sports, including sumo wrestling, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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<\/div>\n The country’s overall population is 124 million, after declining by 595,000 in the previous, \u00a0according to previous government data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The government has attempted to slow the decline and ageing of its population without meaningful success, while gradually extending the retirement age — with 65 becoming the rule for all employers from fiscal 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n kh\/stu\/fox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 17, 2024 The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has hit a record high of more than 95,000, almost 90 per cent of them women, government data showed Tuesday. The figures […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[3207,3134,3206],"coauthors":[25],"class_list":{"0":"post-17727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-top-news","9":"tag-100-years","10":"tag-age","11":"tag-japanese"},"yoast_head":"\n