Japan Population as of 2016 January 1st
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications released the data of the population as of 2016 January 1st. The data below show the population by prefecture.
Prefecture | Population | increase and decrease, 2015 - 2016 | increase-decrease rate |
Total | 128,066,211 | -160,272 | -0.12 |
Tokyo | 13,415,349 | 117,764 | 0.89 |
Kanagawa | 9,136,151 | 19,485 | 0.21 |
Osaka | 8,865,502 | -3,368 | -0.04 |
Aichi | 7,509,636 | 19,690 | 0.26 |
Saitama | 7,323,413 | 18,517 | 0.25 |
Chiba | 6,265,899 | 11,793 | 0.19 |
Hyogo | 5,621,087 | -17,251 | -0.31 |
Hokkaido | 5,401,210 | -30,448 | -0.56 |
Fukuoka | 5,122,448 | 2,251 | 0.04 |
Shizuoka | 3,770,619 | -15,487 | -0.41 |
Ibaraki | 2,970,231 | -11,542 | -0.39 |
Hiroshima | 2,863,211 | -5,948 | -0.21 |
Kyoto | 2,574,842 | -4,463 | -0.17 |
Miyagi | 2,324,466 | -3,667 | -0.16 |
Niigata | 2,319,435 | -18,050 | -0.77 |
Nagano | 2,137,666 | -10,837 | -0.50 |
Gifu | 2,076,195 | -11,400 | -0.55 |
Gunma | 2,005,320 | -6,883 | -0.34 |
Tochigi | 1,998,864 | -5,553 | -0.28 |
Fukushima | 1,953,699 | -11,687 | -0.59 |
Okayama | 1,933,781 | -5,941 | -0.31 |
Mie | 1,850,028 | -10,085 | -0.54 |
Kumamoto | 1,810,343 | -7,971 | -0.44 |
Kagoshima | 1,679,502 | -11,925 | -0.71 |
Okinawa | 1,461,231 | 7,208 | 0.50 |
Shiga | 1,419,863 | -1,479 | -0.10 |
Yamaguchi | 1,419,781 | -11,759 | -0.82 |
Ehime | 1,415,997 | -10,370 | -0.73 |
Nagasaki | 1,404,103 | -9,052 | -0.64 |
Nara | 1,387,818 | -7,830 | -0.56 |
Aomori | 1,338,465 | -14,871 | -1.10 |
Iwate | 1,289,470 | -11,493 | -0.88 |
Oita | 1,183,961 | -6,837 | -0.57 |
Ishikawa | 1,157,042 | -2,721 | -0.23 |
Yamagata | 1,129,560 | -11,175 | -0.98 |
Miyazaki | 1,128,078 | -7,574 | -0.67 |
Toyama | 1,080,160 | -5,550 | -0.51 |
Akita | 1,043,015 | -13,564 | -1.28 |
Kagawa | 1,002,173 | -3,397 | -0.34 |
Wakayama | 994,317 | -9,413 | -0.94 |
Yamanashi | 849,784 | -5,718 | -0.67 |
Saga | 842,457 | -4,967 | -0.59 |
Fukui | 799,220 | -4,285 | -0.53 |
Tokushima | 770,057 | -6,510 | -0.84 |
Kochi | 740,059 | -7,063 | -0.95 |
Shimane | 701,394 | -4,804 | -0.68 |
Tottori | 579,309 | -4,042 | -0.69 |
Figure: Population increase-decrease rate by prefecture, 2015 - 2016
In red and orange area, the population inceased last year. It decreased in other area, especially in blue prefectures.
Source is Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
住民基本台帳に基づく人口、人口動態及び世帯数(平成28年1月1日現在)
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