Number of Registered Dogs By Year in Japan
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has statistics of registered dogs since 1960. Registered dogs are increasing from 1960 to the present.
Number of registered dogs | Of which Got injection for rabies | Captured stray dogs | Of which returned | |
1960 | 1,905,080 | 3,075,417 | 396,790 | 68,650 |
1965 | 2,362,632 | 3,999,176 | 485,109 | 60,791 |
1970 | 2,895,036 | 4,640,577 | 636,689 | 49,381 |
1975 | 3,197,228 | 5,157,812 | 602,453 | 21,351 |
1980 | 3,178,970 | 5,223,372 | 438,147 | 13,595 |
1985 | 3,430,916 | 3,460,920 | 350,043 | 13,425 |
1989 | 3,726,229 | 3,697,397 | 297,454 | 12,210 |
1990 | 3,889,612 | 3,862,619 | 288,659 | 11,863 |
1991 | 3,913,500 | 3,888,926 | 269,987 | 12,132 |
1992 | 4,055,708 | 4,041,703 | 251,593 | 12,180 |
1993 | 4,114,874 | 4,088,435 | 243,207 | 12,605 |
1994 | 4,143,370 | 4,111,445 | 244,061 | 13,142 |
1995 | 4,223,830 | 4,303,566 | 225,873 | 14,790 |
1996 | 4,799,379 | 4,283,977 | 210,851 | 14,926 |
1997 | 5,137,331 | 4,450,606 | 202,578 | 15,638 |
1998 | 5,424,157 | 4,479,486 | 191,693 | 17,932 |
1999 | 5,645,424 | 4,578,277 | 166,647 | 15,089 |
2000 | 5,779,462 | 4,606,527 | 151,574 | 15,336 |
2001 | 5,939,595 | 4,646,046 | 126,570 | 15,004 |
2002 | 6,084,731 | 4,681,524 | 109,864 | 14,912 |
2003 | 6,262,510 | 4,741,488 | 103,691 | 14,803 |
2004 | 6,394,226 | 4,801,709 | 95,858 | 14,995 |
2005 | 6,479,977 | 4,796,585 | 88,846 | 14,542 |
2006 | 6,635,807 | 4,910,047 | 86,621 | 14,948 |
2007 | 6,739,716 | 5,097,615 | 73,303 | 14,621 |
2008 | 6,804,649 | 5,091,515 | 64,575 | 15,266 |
2009 | 6,880,844 | 5,112,401 | 57,276 | 14,627 |
2010 | 6,778,184 | 4,961,401 | 51,630 | 14,498 |
2011 | 6,852,235 | 4,985,930 | 48,848 | 15,023 |
2012 | 6,785,959 | 4,914,347 | 44,246 | 14,618 |
Until 1985 dogs got injections twice a year.
Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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