The population of Japanese nationals stood at 120.3 million as of October 2024, down a record 8,98,000 from a year earlier, a government estimate showed Monday, amid the graying of society and a ...

18, Respect-for-the-Aged Day, show that those aged 80 and older for the first time represent 10 percent of the population. An estimated 36.23 million people in Japan ... the age of 65 is ...

or 32.3 percent of Japan’s female population, while the number of senior citizen men was 15.72 million, or 26.1 percent of the male population. By age group, those 75 and over rose in number by ...