28pc of Japanese population officially old: Govt

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New Straits Times, Tokyo :
More than 28 per cent of Japan’s population is now officially classified as elderly according to government data, the highest rate in the world as the first wave of postwar baby boomers enter old age.
Those aged 65 or older now make up a record 35.6 million, or 28.1 percent of the total population, the government said Sunday.
The proportion is the highest by far in the world, ahead of 23.3 per cent in Italy, 21.9 per cent in Portugal and 21.7 per cent in Germany, according to UN data for those countries.
they have to serve more one year and six months jail.
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