Japan has more than 100,000 people over the age of 100
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The country has 107,677 centennials: 7,914 more than in 2005; women account for almost 88 per cent of the total; the longest person is 114 years old.
Japan has a record number of people aged 100 and over, with more than 107,000 of them women. The country is also facing the opposite problem: fewer children are being born and its population is rapidly aging.
#Sawalev announced Tuesday that the number of older people aged 100 years or over in Japan exceeded the 100,000-year-old barrier for the first time, in a country where fertility was the lowest historical level last year. According to the World Bank, Japan has the second largest proportion of older people in the world after Monaco, with an average of... the number of people aged 100 years or over exceeding 100,000 for the first time in Japan appe…
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