According to local Japanese media, the number of elderly people over 100 in Japan has exceeded 90,000, and nine have become women, reaching a new record in Japan's history. This record has increased for 52 consecutive years.
The number of people over 100 in Japan continues to rise, and the average life expectancy remains high in international rankings. This not only reflects Japan's medical technology and elderly care, but also highlights the serious problem of rapid aging of the population of Japan.
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (responsible for the medical, health and social security department) began to investigate since 1963. At that time, there were 153 elderly people over 100 in Japan. The data exceeded 1,000 in 1981, and then reached 10,000 in 1998, and until this year it rose to 90,000. This trend of population aging will be a problem that Japan has to face.
The biggest problem with population aging is the social welfare problem of the elderly. Due to the serious aging of the population in Japan, you will even see elderly people over 70 driving taxis on the streets. There is a clear comparison in the data of
. According to the latest census data in the United States, there are more than 90,000 centenarians in the United States, but what is the population of the United States? In 2022, the United States has a population of about 333 million and Japan has a population of 127 million. The United States has a population of more than 200 million more than Japan. However, the number of people over 100 years old is similar.
At the same time, among the published data, there are more than 80,000 female elderly people among centenarians, accounting for 88.6% of the total, almost 90%, while there are only more than 10,000 male elderly people.
