The chart and table below give information about population figures in Japan. Japan’s population: past, present and future trends.

The bar chart below compares the

population

of

Japan

from 1950 until today and

also

illustrates estimations of

this

figure

until 2055.

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data about the same information with a focus on the

population

of

people

over 65 years old.

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Overall

, we can see that the figures for the

population

of

Japan

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predicted to tremendously decline between 2015 and 2055.

Furthermore

, we're witnessing the rise of

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population

. Looking at the bar chart,

Japan

had just over 84

million

citizens in 1950. It continued rising in

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until it peaked at almost 128

million

in 2005 where it started to decrease slowly.

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the predictions,

Japan

will lose over 35

million

of its

population

between 2015 and 2055, almost 30

million

of which

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to the second half of that period. Focusing on the table,

Japan

had a little under 5 per cent of its

population

in the ages above 65 years, with only 4.1

million

old

people

. By the year

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2005,

this

figure

had

rose

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to 20 per cent of the

population

and over 25

million

people

were

then

, elderly.

This

trend is predicted to continue until 2035 and

also

, 2055 when respectively, 34 and 41 per cent of its

population

are over 65 years.

However

, we will see the

population

of elder

people

fall just by 0.7

million

between 2035 and 2055, even though in relative terms their

figure

will still grow.