Japan’s “Centennial Club” is growing and growing: the world’s third-largest economy now has 92,139 people aged 100 or older. That is 1,613 more than a year earlier, the Ministry of Health in Tokyo announced on Friday.
The number has been increasing every year for 53 years. Given low birth rates and virtually no immigration, the East Asian country is aging faster than any other industrialized country in the world.
The population is shrinking at a record pace
Moreover, Japan’s population is shrinking at a record pace: the number of Japanese people fell by 801,000 last year compared to the previous year to just 122.4 million, the sharpest decline since comparable data began to be recorded.
88% of centenarians are women
When Japan’s Ministry of Health began collecting statistics in 1963, the Far Eastern island kingdom had just 153 centenarians. 25 years later there were already more than 10,000. According to the most recent research, about 88 percent of all centenarians are women. People in Japan live the longest. Life expectancy for women is around 87 years and for men around 81 years.
Source: Krone
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