One in 10 Japanese aged 80 or above as elderly ratio hits record high

TOKYO, Sept 18, 2023 (BSS/XINHUA) – One out of 10 individuals in Japan is currently aged 80 or older, while the ratio of elderly to the complete populace climbed to a record high, ministry information revealed Sunday.
Japan’s elderly people, specified as those aged 65 and also above, saw their portion in the total populace at a historical high of 29.1 percent, according to the market stats revealed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and also Communications a day prior to the nation’s Respect for the Aged Day vacation.
It made Japan the nation with the greatest portion of elderly people amongst 200 countries and also areas worldwide.
Elderly numbers, nevertheless, saw the initial decrease given that documents came to be equivalent in 1950, dropping by around 10,000 from in 2015 to 36.2 million as of Friday, the information revealed.
The number …