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