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JPN · East Asia & Pacific

Japan

123,366,734

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-608.64K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-2.7%from 126.84M
Life expectancy84.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.15births per woman · 2024
Urban population92.3%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificHigh income

A country at every age

How Japan is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1411.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6458.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+30.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate5.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate13.3deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-7.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+140.58Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Japan look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 105.12M in 2050—15.1% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024123.75M
  2. 2050105.12M
  3. 210076.85M
Median age in 205052.8years
Births in 2050727.94Kduring the year
Deaths in 20501.52Mduring the year
Life expectancy88.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196093.22M
  2. 1970103.4M
  3. 1980116.81M
  4. 1990123.48M
  5. 2000126.84M
  6. 2010128.07M
  7. 2020126.26M
  8. 2025123.37M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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