Number of Centenarians In Japan Increase
According to the Japanese government, for the 55th straight year, the number of people aged 100 and over has increased, now to a record 99,763. The government started the Centenarian Survey in 1963, when the number was 153.
Women make up about 88% of the total, at 87,784, and the number of men at 11,979. The oldest person is Shigeko Kagawa, a 114 year old woman in Nara Prefecture. The oldest man is 111 year old Kiyotaka Mizuno in Shizuoka Prefecture. The average life expectancy of Japanese people is 87.13 for women and 81.09 for men, according to the Japanese government.
Shigeko Kagawa
Kiyotaka Mizuno
1 comment:
That is a lot of elders. Now I feel young in comparison at only 80. Japan is one of the first countries to not have enough babies to replace the population.
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