They're getting older in Japan

In 1963 there were only 153 Japanese who were at least 100 years old. Twenty-five years later there were 10,000. Now there are 80,000+, or about 1 in 1,500 people in Japan. Most (88%) of these centenarians are women.

Comparable figures for the U.S. are in the same range; 82,000+ in 2016. But there are 126,000,000 Japanese or about a third of our population of 326,000,000.


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