Percentage of Children's Population By Prefecture in Japan, 2015
Every year Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications reports the number of children on May 4th. According to it, the population of children increased only in Tokyo, from 2014 to 2015. The children's population decreased in the rest of prefectures.
Figure: Percentage of Children's Population By Prefecture in Japan, 2015
Red prefecture has the high percentage, blue does not.
If it excludes Okinawa from the map above, the new map is going to be like the below.
| Rank | Prefecture | Number of 0-14 year-old children (x1000) | % of children population | comparing to 2014, number (x1000) | comparing to 2014, % |
| － | Total | 16,108 | 12.7 | -147 | -0.1 |
| 1 | Okinawa | 250 | 17.4 | 0 | -0.1 |
| 2 | Shiga | 205 | 14.5 | -2 | -0.1 |
| 3 | Saga | 117 | 14.1 | -2 | -0.1 |
| 4 | Aichi | 1,035 | 13.8 | -7 | -0.2 |
| 5 | Miyazaki | 151 | 13.7 | -2 | -0.1 |
| 6 | Kumamoto | 243 | 13.6 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | Kagoshima | 224 | 13.6 | -2 | 0 |
| 8 | Fukuoka | 688 | 13.5 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Fukui | 105 | 13.3 | -1 | -0.1 |
| 9 | Gifu | 270 | 13.3 | -5 | -0.1 |
| 9 | Hiroshima | 378 | 13.3 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Okayama | 254 | 13.2 | -2 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Mie | 238 | 13.1 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Hyogo | 724 | 13.1 | -9 | -0.1 |
| 13 | Nagasaki | 180 | 13.1 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Ishikawa | 150 | 13.0 | -2 | -0.1 |
| 16 | Nagano | 273 | 13.0 | -5 | -0.2 |
| 16 | Shizuoka | 483 | 13.0 | -7 | -0.2 |
| 16 | Tottori | 74 | 13.0 | -1 | 0 |
| 20 | Tochigi | 254 | 12.9 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 20 | Gunma | 254 | 12.9 | -4 | -0.1 |
| 20 | Kagawa | 126 | 12.9 | -2 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Ibaraki | 372 | 12.7 | -5 | -0.2 |
| 23 | Saitama | 923 | 12.7 | -6 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Kanagawa | 1,155 | 12.7 | -7 | -0.1 |
| 23 | Shimane | 88 | 12.7 | -1 | 0 |
| 23 | Oita | 149 | 12.7 | -1 | -0.1 |
| 28 | Miyagi | 295 | 12.6 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 28 | Osaka | 1,109 | 12.6 | -14 | -0.1 |
| 30 | Nara | 170 | 12.5 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 30 | Ehime | 173 | 12.5 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 32 | Chiba | 774 | 12.4 | -6 | -0.2 |
| 32 | Yamanashi | 104 | 12.4 | -2 | -0.2 |
| 34 | Fukushima | 235 | 12.3 | -5 | -0.2 |
| 34 | Toyama | 131 | 12.3 | -2 | -0.1 |
| 34 | Yamaguchi | 172 | 12.3 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 37 | Yamagata | 136 | 12.2 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 37 | Kyoto | 319 | 12.2 | -4 | -0.2 |
| 39 | Wakayama | 117 | 12.1 | -2 | -0.2 |
| 40 | Iwate | 153 | 12.0 | -3 | -0.1 |
| 40 | Niigata | 278 | 12.0 | -5 | -0.2 |
| 42 | Tokushima | 90 | 11.9 | -1 | 0 |
| 43 | Kochi | 84 | 11.6 | -2 | -0.1 |
| 44 | Aomori | 151 | 11.5 | -4 | -0.2 |
| 45 | Hokkaido | 613 | 11.4 | -9 | -0.1 |
| 46 | Tokyo | 1,533 | 11.3 | 15 | 0 |
| 47 | Akita | 108 | 10.6 | -4 | -0.2 |
Source is Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
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