Japan Urban population
What is Japan's urban population? As of 2023, it's 114.7M Unit, down from 116.1M Unit in 2014.
| Label | Urban population |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 116145580 Unit |
| 2015 | 116147454 Unit |
| 2016 | 116216245 Unit |
| 2017 | 116242665 Unit |
| 2018 | 116206724 Unit |
| 2019 | 116143255 Unit |
| 2020 | 115883599 Unit |
| 2021 | 115468839 Unit |
| 2022 | 115087029 Unit |
| 2023 | 114658281 Unit |
Data Source: World Bank and Wantstats Repository
Japan Urban population: Key Points
- Framed simply: Japan's urban population was 116.15M Unit in 2014, is now 114.66M Unit as of 2023, down by roughly 1% in between.
- 2015-2023: A little give and take here, but the broader shape still holds.
- 2023: Breaks from the rest of the series with a drop from 115.09M to 114.66M Unit (~0%).
- By the last year on record, 2023, the figure sits at 114.66M Unit — 1.3% below 2014.
What The Ups And Downs Really Mean
1.3% start-to-end makes this look boring. It is not boring — it is a round trip. Something pushes the number away from 116.15M and something else pulls it back.
Use the direction of this line more than any single year's value — urban population figures like this one are most reliable as a trend indicator, less reliable as a precise year-by-year scorecard.
Source here is a national/international statistics body, not a live measurement — most time series like this are interpolated or modeled between actual survey years. Treat the trend as the real signal, individual years as approximate.
This is the urban view of the indicator. Its rural counterpart is a different, and sometimes very differently-shaped, chart — worth checking both before forming a view.
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