31.2% of Japanese Households Are Single-member Households
Newly released census data shows that almost a third of households in Japan consist of just one person:
The share of single-member households came to 31.2 percent as of last October as their number increased some 10 percent from the previous census in 2005 to 15,885,000.
The number of couple-and-child households, which had been the most dominant household category until the previous census, fell slightly to 14,588,000, accounting for 28.7 percent of the total.
The total number of households surpassed 50 million for the first time since Japan’s population census began in 1920 due to an increase in smaller households. The average number of persons per household declined to a record low of 2.46.
Related link: The Nikkei tells us that the aging of Japan’s population has stretched its social security system to the breaking point.
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