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[Population & Family] Japan \n---------- \nAfghanistan \nAlbania \nAlgeria \nAmerican Samoa \nAndorra \nAngola \nAnguilla \nAntigua and Barbuda \nArgentina \nArmenia \nAruba \nAustralia \nAustria \nAzerbaijan \nBahamas \nBahrain \nBangladesh \nBarbados \nBelarus \nBelgium \nBelize \nBenin \nBermuda \nBhutan \nBolivia \nBosnia and Herzegovina \nBotswana \nBrazil \nBritish Virgin Islands \nBrunei Darussalam \nBulgaria \nBurkina Faso \nBurundi \nCambodia \nCameroon \nCanada \nCape Verde \nCayman Islands \nCentral African Republic \nChad \nChannel Islands \nChile \nChina \nColombia \nComoros \nCongo, Democratic Republic \nCongo, Republic of the \nCook Islands \nCosta Rica \nCote d'Ivoire \nCroatia \nCuba \nCuracao \nCyprus \nCzech Republic \nDenmark \nDjibouti \nDominica \nDominican Republic \nEcuador \nEgypt \nEl Salvador \nEquatorial Guinea \nEritrea \nEstonia \nEthiopia \nFaeroe Islands \nFalkland Islands (Malvinas) \nFiji \nFinland \nFrance \nFrench Guiana \nFrench Polynesia \nGabon \nGambia \nGeorgia \nGermany \nGhana \nGibraltar \nGreece \nGreenland \nGrenada \nGuadeloupe \nGuam \nGuatemala \nGuernsey \nGuinea \nGuinea-Bissau \nGuyana \nHaiti \nHoly See (Vatican City) \nHonduras \nHong Kong, China \nHungary \nIceland \nIndia \nIndonesia \nIran, Islamic Republic of \nIraq \nIreland \nIsrael \nItaly \nJamaica \nJapan \nJersey \nJordan \nKazakhstan \nKenya \nKiribati \nKorea, DPR \nKorea, Republic of \nKosovo \nKuwait \nKyrgyzstan \nLaos \nLatvia \nLebanon \nLesotho \nLiberia \nLibya \nLiechtenstein \nLithuania \nLuxembourg \nMacao, China \nMacedonia \nMadagascar \nMalawi \nMalaysia \nMaldives \nMali \nMalta \nMan, Isle of \nMarshall Islands \nMartinique \nMauritania \nMauritius \nMayotte \nMexico \nMicronesia, Federated States of \nMoldova \nMonaco \nMongolia \nMontenegro \nMontserrat \nMorocco \nMozambique \nMyanmar (Burma) \nNamibia \nNauru \nNepal \nNetherlands \nNetherlands Antilles \nNew Caledonia \nNew Zealand \nNicaragua \nNiger \nNigeria \nNiue \nNorthern Mariana Islands \nNorway \nOman \nPakistan \nPalau \nPalestinian Territory \nPanama \nPapua New Guinea \nParaguay \nPeru \nPhilippines \nPitcairn \nPoland \nPortugal \nPuerto Rico \nQatar \nReunion \nRomania \nRussian Federation \nRwanda \nSt. Helena \nSt. Kitts and Nevis \nSt. Lucia \nSt. Martin (French part) \nSt. Pierre et Miquelon \nSt. Vincent and the Grenadines \nSamoa \nSan Marino \nSao Tome and Principe \nSaudi Arabia \nSenegal \nSerbia \nSeychelles \nSierra Leone \nSingapore \nSint Maarten (Dutch part) \nSlovakia \nSlovenia \nSolomon Islands \nSomalia \nSouth Africa \nSouth Sudan \nSpain \nSri Lanka \nSudan \nSuriname \nSwaziland \nSweden \nSwitzerland \nSyrian Arab Republic \nTaiwan \nTajikistan \nTanzania \nThailand \nTimor-Leste \nTogo \nTokelau \nTonga \nTrinidad and Tobago \nTunisia \nTurkey \nTurkmenistan \nTurks and Caicos Islands \nTuvalu \nUganda \nUkraine \nUnited Arab Emirates \nUnited Kingdom \nUnited States \nUruguay \nUzbekistan \nVanuatu \nVenezuela \nViet Nam \nVirgin Islands \nWallis and Futuna Islands \nWestern Sahara \nYemen \nZambia \nZimbabwe \ninWorld \nMajor advanced countries \nOECD members \nASIA \n
*You can change the scope of the rankings and the country. *The rankings are colored yellow if the country is ranked in upper 20% and green in lower 20%. *To see the ranking table, click the link of each ranking.
Birth
Fertility rate, total (births per woman) 1.39 (2011) 180/194countries Sex ratio at birth 1.056 (2005-2010) 59/197countries Mean age of mother at first childbirth 29.1 (2005) 7/37countries Infant mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 infants) 2.4 (2011) 185/193countries Under 5 mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 children under age five) 3.4 (2011) 181/193countries Adolescent fertility rate (Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19) 5.63 (2010) 178/189countries Mean Personal ideal number of children 2.5 (2005) 6/34countries % of those who think that their ideal number of children is 3 or more 62.2% (1994) 4/22countries Proportion of births out of wedlock 2.0% (2007) 35/36countries % of those who think that it is wrong for a woman to have an abortion if there is a strong chance of serious defect in the baby 32.7% (2008) 13/40countries % of those who think that it is wrong for a woman to have an abortion if her family cannot afford any more children 51.4% (2008) 19/39countries % of those who think that a pregnant woman should be able to obtain a legal abortion for any reason if she chooses not to have the baby 31.6% (1994) 20/22countries
Family structure
Single person households, % of all households 29.47% (2005) 14/34countries Couple families, % of all households 49.49% (2005) 33/36countries Couples with children, % of all couple families 60.31% (2005) 16/32countries Sole-parent families, % of all households with children. 18.20% (2005) 23/36countries Households with child(ren), % of all households 26% (2007) 33/33countries Households with 3 and more children, % of all households 4% (2007) 26/32countries Households with children under 6, % of all households 10% (2007) 26/27countries % of children living in sole-parent families 12% (2005) 22/27countries % of elderly who live with their child(ren) 45.5% (2010) 1/5countries % of those who live with their adult child among those who have adult child 48.1% (2001) 6/27countries % of those who see their adult child at least once a week among those who have adult child but do not live together 47.8% (2001) 27/27countries % of those who live with their father among those who have alive father 41.8% (2001) 2/27countries % of those who see their father once a week among those who have father but do not live together 23.1% (2001) 27/27countries % of those who live with their mother among those who have alive mother 39.5% (2001) 2/27countries % of those who see their mother once a week among those who have mother but do not live together 27.2% (2001) 27/27countries % of those who live less than 30 minutes from their mother among those who have mother but do not live together 41.2% (2001) 24/27countries % of those who live with their adult brother/ sister, among those who have adult brother/ sister 9.5% (2001) 8/27countries % of those who see their adult brother/ sister at least once a week among those who have adult brother/ sister but not live together 17.6% (2001) 27/27countries
Family relationship
% of elderly who contact their child(ren) not living together more than once a week 52.0% (2010) 5/5countries % of those who get together with relatives in their free time several times a week or more 41.3% (2007) 4/34countries % of those who think that they should take care of themselves and their family first, before helping other people 69.3% (2001) 17/27countries % of those who feel that their family, relatives and/or friends make too many demands on them 42.3% (2001) 5/27countries % of those who think that their life at home is rarely stressful 53.1% (2002) 15/33countries % of those who would like to have more time with family 32.8% (2007) 34/34countries % of those who would like to have less time with family 3.6% (2007) 10/34countries Extent of satisfaction with family life (7 steps) 5.52 (2002) 18/33countries
Parent-child relations
% of those who think that when there are children in the family, parents should stay together even if they don't get along 58.9% (1994) 2/21countries % of those who think that even when there are no children, a married couple should stay together even if they don't get along 30.2% (1994) 2/22countries % of those who think that having children interferes too much with the freedom of parents 43.7% (1994) 4/22countries % of those who think that one parent can bring up a child as well as two parents together 57.3% (2002) 7/33countries % of those who think that watching children grow up is life's greatest joy 86.2% (2002) 24/33countries % of those who think that life without children is empty 49.8% (2002) 15/33countries % of those who think that adult children have a duty to look after their elderly parents 53.6% (2001) 23/27countries
Domestic violence
Deaths among children aged 0-19 years due to negligence, maltreatmet or physical assault - total (per 100,000) 0.34 (2006-2008) 19/35countries Deaths among children aged 0-19 years due to negligence, maltreatmet or physical assault - at home (per 100,000) 0.26 (2006-2008) 7/35countries Partner physical or sexual assault 0.10% (2004) 26/28countries
Marriage and sex
Crude marriage rate (marriages per 1,000 population) 5.7 (2007) 9/39countries Crude divorce rate (divorces per 1,000 population) 2.0 (2007) 25/38countries Age at first marriage - female (year) 29.42 (2005) 160/180countries Age at first marriage - male (year) 31.14 (2005) 139/169countries % of those who are married among 15 years and older 67.0% (2010) 4/40countries % of those who are domestic partners among 15 years and older 0.2% (2010) 33/40countries % of those who are single or never married among 15 years and older 25.1% (2010) 22/40countries % of those who are divorced among 15 years and older 2.3% (2010) 29/40countries % of those who have ever divorced among those who have ever married 4.7% (1994) 20/22countries % of those whose husband, wife, or partner has ever divorced among those who have ever married or living as married 3.2% (1994) 18/22countries % of those who have lived together without getting married 3.3% (1994) 21/21countries % of those who think that married people are generally happier than unmarried people 35.5% (2002) 18/33countries % of those who think that it is better to have a bad marriage than no marriage at all 9.5% (2002) 11/33countries % of those who think that the main advantage of marriage is that it gives financial security 42.4% (1994) 6/22countries % of those who think that the main purpose of marriage these days is to have children 18.8% (1994) 17/22countries % of those who think that people who want children ought to get married 62.3% (2002) 11/33countries % of those who think that it is all right for a couple to live together without intending to get married 42.5% (2002) 29/33countries % of those who lived with their husband or wife before they got married 7.6% (1994) 20/22countries % of those who think that it is a good idea for a couple who intend to get married to live together first 31.5% (2002) 33/33countries % of those who think that a couple should divorce when their marriage does not work well 33.8% (2002) 33/33countries % of those who think that adultery is always wrong 47.6% (2008) 34/40countries % of those who think that sex before marriage is always wrong 8.0% (2008) 27/40countries % of those who think that homosexuality is always wrong 33.7% (2008) 29/40countries % of those who think that sex under 16 years old is always wrong 60.1% (1994) 10/22countries
Migration
% of those who experience migration 56.2% (2008) 32/40countries % of those willing to move to another neighbourhood to improve their work or living conditions 26.3% (1995) 21/23countries % of those unwilling to move to another neighbourhood even to improve their work or living conditions 55.6% (1995) 7/23countries % of those willing to move to another town or city within the county to improve their work or living conditions 22.4% (1995) 20/23countries % of those unwilling to move to another town or city within the county even to improve their work or living conditions 60.9% (1995) 7/23countries % of those willing to move to another county to improve their work or living conditions 18.3% (1995) 20/23countries % of those unwilling to move to another county even to improve their work or living conditions 64.2% (1995) 8/23countries Emigration rate of tertiary educated (% in total tertiary educated population) 1.24% (2000) 180/191countries % of those who experience international migration 1.1% (2008) 40/40countries % of those willing to move to another country in the same continent to improve their work or living conditions 5.1% (1995) 23/23countries % of those unwilling to move to another country in the same continent even to improve their work or living conditions 84.8% (1995) 3/23countries % of those willing to move to another continent to improve their work or living conditions 6.6% (1995) 21/22countries % of those unwilling to move to another continent even to improve their work or living conditions 79.7% (1995) 7/22countries
Migrants
International migrant stock (% of immigrants in the population) 1.7% (2010) 150/209countries Refugee population by country or territory of asylum 2,649 (2011) 96/187countries Refugee population by country or territory of asylum per Population (ten thousands) 0.21 (2011) 140/187countries % of those who think that the number of immigrants to the country nowadays should be increased 13.2% (2003) 9/33countries % of those who think that the number of immigrants to the country nowadays should be reduced 51.9% (2003) 21/33countries % of those who think that immigrants increase crime rates 71.8% (2003) 4/33countries % of those who think that immigration is the most important issue for their country 0.5% (2010) 28/32countries % of those who think that immigrants are generally good for the country's economy 36.1% (2003) 16/33countries % of those who agree that immigrants take jobs away from people who were born in the country 27.6% (2003) 23/33countries % of those who think that immigrants improve your country's society by bringing in new ideas and cultures 19.5% (2003) 32/33countries % of those who think that the government spends too much money assisting immigrants 33.2% (2003) 28/33countries % of those who agree that it is impossible for people who do not share the country's customs and traditions to become fully the country's nationalty 53.8% (2003) 17/33countries % of those who agree that ethnic minorities should be given government assistance to preserve their customs and traditions 52.6% (2003) 15/33countries % of those who think that it is better for society if different racial and ethnic groups maintain their distinct customs and traditions 88.9% (2003) 1/34countries % of those who think that foreigners should not be allowed to buy land in this country 28.6% (2003) 26/34countries % of those who agree that children born in their country of parents who are not citizens should have the right to become their country's citizens. 61.3% (2003) 30/34countries % of those who agree that children born abroad should have the right to become their country's citizens if at least one of the parents is their country's citizen 80.8% (2003) 16/34countries % of those who think that it should be easier for the immigrants who have the country's nationality and have come from other countries to attain the country's citizenship 57.8% (1995) 10/13countries % of those who agree that legal immigrants to their country who are not citizens should have the same rights as their country's citizens 66.5% (2003) 5/34countries % of those who agree that their country should take stronger measures to exclude illegal immigrants 86.2% (2003) 7/34countries % of those who think that people prejudiced against any racial or ethnic group should be allowed to hold public meetings 8.2% (2004) 35/38countries % of those who think that refugees should be accepted 35.3% (1995) 20/23countries
