Society Japan's population drops below 125m

Tokyo saw its population increase for the first time in two years. But it was the only prefecture that gained people over the year. Okinawa Prefecture's population contracted for the first time since 1950, when such surveys became available. Overall, the nation's population fell by 0.44 percent. Only the drop in 2021 was sharper. The change in natural population, which covers births and deaths but excludes immigration, was minus 731,000, the largest drop on record. The data also showed that Japan gained a net 191,000 residents in "social population," which compares the number of foreign nationals who entered Japan and the number who left the country. The figure was second largest after the plus 208,000 recorded in 2019.

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