Japan tops 120M
NZPA-AP Tokyo Japan’s population has topped 120 million for the first time, according to preliminary results of the Government’s 1985 census conducted in October. The results, published in Japanese newspapers, reveal that 120,047,061 people live in the archipelago, an increase of about 3,980,000 people over the last population poll taken in 1980.
Tokyo’s population was 11,828,262, or about 210,000 more than the last census. Japan’s second-largest city, Osaka, registered 8,668,114 residents.
The disclosure of Japan’s population coincided with a study published recently by the World Health Organisation which found Japanese to have the world’s longest average life span for men at 74.8 years and the secondlongest life span for women at 80.7 years.
The Swiss were first for women with an average life span of 80.8 years, and second for men at 73.8 years, according to the W.H.O. study.
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