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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)

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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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