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Age at first marriage for men
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30 years |
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[13th of 19]
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Age at first marriage for women
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27.3 years |
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[15th of 19]
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Age structure > 0-14 years
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14.3 |
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[223rd of 226]
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Average size of households
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2.8 |
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[2nd of 17]
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Birth rate
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7.87 births/1,000 population |
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[222nd of 226]
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Chinese population
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170,000 |
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[15th of 127]
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Divorces per 100 marriages
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33.1 divorces per 100 marriag |
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[14th of 20]
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Ethnic groups
Japanese 98.5%, Koreans 0.5%, Chinese 0.4%, other 0.6%; note: up to 230,000 Brazilians of Japanese origin migrated to Japan in the 1990s to work in industries; some have returned to Brazil |
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Marriage rate
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5.8 |
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[20th of 27]
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Nobel prize laureates
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12 |
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[10th of 44]
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Population
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127,288,416 |
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[11th of 242]
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Population decline > Main reason for decrease
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declining births |
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Population growth rate
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-0.139% |
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[217th of 235]
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Population in 2015
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127,993 |
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[10th of 225]
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Projected population growth
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-20.95% |
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[134th of 141]
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Sex ratio > Under 15 years
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1.06 male(s)/female |
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[30th of 224]
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Teenage birth rate
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4.6 |
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[27th of 28]
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Total fertility rate
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1.22 children born/woman |
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[214th of 225]
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Total Population
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127,463,611 |
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[10th of 227]
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Urbanization
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79 |
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[39th of 204]
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SOURCES: 1980 figures and 1999 figures for EU countries are from European Social Statistics Demography 2001. Australian figures are from ABS, Year Book Australia 2003 - Population. Marriages and Divorces and the latest figure is for 2001. Figures for other European and North American countries come from UN Economic Commission for Europe, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN, NY, 2001). New Zealand figures from Maureen Baker, Families, Labour and Love (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001). Japanese figures from Japan Almanac 1998 (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo). Figures for other countries from UN Statistics Division, The World's Women 2000: Trends and Statistics.
Spanish Statistical Institute; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Economic Commission for Europe Statistical Division, Trends in Europe and North America 2001 (UN Economic Commission for Europe, NY, 2001), p. 74; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; University Libraries, Ohio University; OECD; United Nations, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, April 2001; The Nobel Foundation; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; Wikipedia: Population decline; Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision and World Urbanization Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpp; Population Reference Bureau, 2001 World Population Data Sheet, Washington, DC: PRB, 2001. via ciesin.org; UNICEF; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, International Programs Center
Spanish Statistical Institute; Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights (ESA/P/WP.173, 20 March 2002)
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