The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said that as of September 15, the number of people aged 100 and over in this country for the first time exceeded the 100,000 mark.
According to the World Bank, with the middle age reaching 49.9, Japan currently has the second oldest population in the world, only after Monaco.
Middle-aged is an important indicator in denoting population distribution by age, dividing the population of that region into two groups with equal numbers.
The latest survey results of the Japanese Government, announced before the annual Lunar New Year next week, show that as of September 1, this country had 107,677 people aged 100 and over.
Notably, the number of people living over 100 years old in Japan has increased continuously in the past 56 years, and this is the first time the number of people in this age group has exceeded 100,000 since Japan started statistics. Among them, women account for about 90%.
Statistics released in June recorded that Japan's birth rate continued to decrease last year, to a new record low, more clearly showing the demographic crisis weighing heavily on the world's fourth largest economy. This situation has led to labor shortages, increasing social security costs and shrinking tax revenue.
