Number of Animal Hospitals in Japan
As of 2014 Dec 31, total 15,198 animal hospitals are registered on Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan. 3939 of them are for agricultural/farming animals, 11,259 of them are for pets.
The following shows the number of animal hospitals for pets (cats and dogs + small animals). The ratio of pet hospitals per population is high in Tokyo and its surrounding regions.
Figure : Number of Pet Hospitals per Population by Prefecture, 2014 (unit : per million)
Prefecture | Number of pet hospitals | Per 10,000 residents |
Tokyo | 1,576 | 1.18 |
Kanagawa | 1,016 | 1.12 |
Yamanashi | 86 | 1.02 |
Chiba | 620 | 1.00 |
Hokkaido | 521 | 0.96 |
Saitama | 681 | 0.94 |
Shizuoka | 351 | 0.94 |
Nara | 129 | 0.93 |
Hyogo | 505 | 0.91 |
Gunma | 180 | 0.91 |
Nagano | 191 | 0.90 |
Mie | 163 | 0.89 |
Yamaguchi | 126 | 0.89 |
Ibaraki | 260 | 0.89 |
Tochigi | 175 | 0.88 |
Osaka | 760 | 0.86 |
Aichi | 635 | 0.85 |
Kyoto | 223 | 0.85 |
Kagoshima | 143 | 0.85 |
Hiroshima | 233 | 0.82 |
Wakayama | 80 | 0.82 |
Kochi | 60 | 0.81 |
Oita | 92 | 0.78 |
Fukuoka | 395 | 0.78 |
Gifu | 159 | 0.78 |
Miyagi | 179 | 0.77 |
Tokushima | 59 | 0.77 |
Okayama | 147 | 0.76 |
Shimane | 53 | 0.75 |
Ishikawa | 86 | 0.74 |
Kumamoto | 130 | 0.72 |
Kagawa | 71 | 0.72 |
Shiga | 100 | 0.71 |
Okinawa | 99 | 0.70 |
Miyazaki | 77 | 0.69 |
Fukushima | 132 | 0.68 |
Tottori | 39 | 0.67 |
Ehime | 94 | 0.67 |
Iwate | 82 | 0.63 |
Nagasaki | 87 | 0.62 |
Niigata | 141 | 0.61 |
Akita | 59 | 0.56 |
Fukui | 44 | 0.55 |
Saga | 45 | 0.54 |
Toyama | 57 | 0.53 |
Yamagata | 55 | 0.48 |
Aomori | 63 | 0.47 |
Source is Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.
www.maff.go.jp/j/tokei/kouhyou/animal/
www.maff.go.jp/j/tokei/kouhyou/animal/other/animal_hospital_26.xls
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