The number of single-member households have exceeded 30 percent of total households in Japan, becoming the largest category for the first time, the government said Wednesday in a preliminary tabulation of last October's population census.
The share of single-member households came to 31.2 percent as of last October as their number increased some 10 percent from the previous census in 2005 to 15,885,000.
The number of couple-and-child households, which had been the most dominant household category until the previous census, fell slightly to 14,588,000, accounting for 28.7 percent of the total.
The total number of households surpassed 50 million for the first time since Japan's population census began in 1920 due to an increase in smaller households. The average number of persons per household declined to a record low of 2.46.
The government also said the population share of persons 65 years old and above rose by 2.9 percentage points from 2005 to 23.1 percent in remaining the highest in the world, followed by 20.4 percent in both Italy and Germany.
The proportion of young people below the age of 15 declined 0.6 point to 13.2 percent.
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