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Japan POPULATION
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Figure 4. Age-Sex Distribution, 1988
Source: Based on information from Hideo Tsuda (ed.), Japan
1990: An International Comparison, Tokyo, 1990, 8.
With a population estimated at 124.7 million in July
1993,
Japan is three times more densely populated than Europe as
a whole
and twelve times more densely populated than the United
States. The
population has more than tripled since 1872, when it stood
at 34.8
million. Beginning in the 1950s, the birth rate declined,
however,
and by 1993 the rate of natural increase was 0.32 percent,
the
lowest in the world outside Europe. Both the density and
the age
structure of Japan's population are likely to influence
the
country's future.
Data as of January 1994
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