News Bulletin September 30, 2020

September 30, 2020

No.311

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Launch of ?The Census 2020 Website?

   Information for the 2020 Census have been posted on ?The Census 2020 Website? in six international languages (*1) as well as Japanese.

*1 English, Chinese (simplified/traditional), Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Spanish

   The website also provides the guidance of the census in twenty-seven international languages (*2).

*2 English, Chinese (simplified/traditional), Korean, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Spanish, Filipino, Thai, Nepali, French, Bengali, Malay, Hindi, Burmese, Russian, Sinhala, German, Mongolian, Arabic, Indonesian, Italian, Turkish, Khmer, Lao, Persian, Romanian, Urdu

   The Census 2020 Website (English): https://www.kokusei2020.go.jp/en/

Activities by Japan (MIC) for World Statistics Day

   At its 51st session in March 2020, the United Nations Statistical Commission launched its efforts to prepare for World Statistics Day (WSD) to be celebrated on October 20 of this year. This is the third WSD, following the first one held in 2010 and the second one in 2015.

   In our globalized society, there is an increasing need for internationally comparable and reliable official statistics. Accordingly, WSD has been designated to deepen understanding of official statistics throughout the world.

   To raise awareness of this day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Government of Japan, led by the Office of the Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Standards, has been working on the following activities.

   First, the Office of the Director-General for Policy Planning on Statistical Standards has produced a poster and a plastic folder featuring the WSD logo in order to promote the day in Japan. The Office has also contributed articles introducing WSD to media such as magazines for public relations. Furthermore, in mid-October of this year, the Office will post a movie celebrating WSD, subtitled in Japanese and English, on the YouTube channel of the Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ)(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRFrcN33WdRL6IbJ1C-XdsQ).

   In addition, a Japanese version of the WSD logo translated by the Office has been posted on the World Statistics Day 2020 website run by the United Nations Statistics Division (https://worldstatisticsday.org/). For your information, a kickoff message from Mr. KAWASAKI Shigeru of Japan, the Chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission, has been posted as well.

RECENT RELEASES

August 20, 2020

Population Estimates (March 1, 2020 (Final estimates), August 1, 2020 (Provisional estimates))

- As of March 1, 2020 (Final estimates)

<Total Population>

• The total population was 125,962 thousand, a decrease of 287 thousand (0.23 %) from the previous year.
• The population under 15 years old was 15,130 thousand, a decrease of 204 thousand (1.33 %) from the previous year.
• The population aged 15 to 64 was 74,813 thousand, a decrease of 385 thousand (0.51 %) from the previous year.
• The population aged 65 and over was 36,019 thousand, an increase of 303 thousand (0.85 %) from the previous year.

<Japanese Population>

• Japanese population was 123,458 thousand, a decrease of 534 thousand (0.43 %) from the previous year.

-As of August 1, 2020 (Provisional estimates)

<Total Population>

• The total population was 125.93 million, a decrease of 0.29 million (0.23 %) from the previous year.

August 21, 2020

Consumer Price Index (2015-base) (July 2020, Japan)

• The consumer price index for Japan in July 2020 was 101.9 (2015=100), up 0.3 % over the year before seasonal adjustment, and up 0.2 % from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis.
  
  https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/index.html

August 27, 2020

Monthly Report on Internal Migration in Japan (July 2020)

• The number of internal migrants (All nationalities) was 379,492, a decrease of 39,098 (9.3 %) from the previous year.
• The number of inter-prefectural migrants (All nationalities) was 168,995, a decrease of 24,128 (12.5 %) from the previous year.
• The number of intra-prefectural migrants (All nationalities) was 210,497, a decrease of 14,970 (6.6 %) from the previous year.
• The number of internal migrants (Japanese) was 353,481, a decrease of 22,716 (6.0 %) from the previous year.
• The number of inter-prefectural migrants (Japanese) was 156,248, a decrease of 14,832 (8.7 %) from the previous year.
• The number of intra-prefectural migrants (Japanese) was 197,233, a decrease of 7,884 (3.8 %) from the previous year.
  
  https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/idou/3.html

August 28, 2020

Consumer Price Index (2015-base) (August 2020, Ku-area of Tokyo (preliminary))

• The consumer price index for Ku-area of Tokyo in August 2020 (preliminary) was 102.1 (2015=100), up 0.3 % over the year before seasonal adjustment, and down 0.4 % from the previous month on a seasonally adjusted basis.
  
  https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/1581-t.html

August 31, 2020

Monthly Survey on Service Industries (June 2020 (preliminary))

• Monthly sales: 27.7 trillion yen, down 12.7 % over the year.

• Number of persons working at the location of establishment: 29.49 million persons, down 2.4 % over the year.
  
  https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/mssi/kekka.html

September 1, 2020

Labour Force Survey (Basic Tabulation) (July 2020)

• The number of employed persons in July 2020 was 66.55 million, a decrease of 760 thousand from the previous year.
• The number of unemployed persons in July 2020 was 1.97 million, an increase of 410 thousand from the previous year.

• The unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, was 2.9%.
  
  https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/roudou/results/month/index.html

September 8, 2020

Family Income and Expenditure Survey (Two-or-more-person Households: July 2020)

• Expenditures for Two-or-more-person Households
  The average of monthly consumption expenditures per household for July 2020 was 266,897 yen, down 7.3 % in nominal terms and down 7.6 % in real terms from the previous year.

• Income and Expenditures for Workers? Households
  The average of monthly income per household stood at 685,717 yen, up 9.5 % in nominal terms and up 9.2 % in real terms from the previous year.

  The average of consumption expenditures per household was 288,622 yen, down 10.1 % in nominal terms and down 10.4 % in real terms from the previous year.

         https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/kakei/156.html

Survey of Household Economy (Two-or-more-person households: July 2020) 

<Average expenditure on goods and services ordered over the internet>

• Average expenditure on goods and services ordered over the internet was 16,722 yen (up 15.1 % in nominal terms).

<Main Items contributed to the change of Average Expenditure on goods and services ordered over the internet>

• Food: up 69.3 % in nominal terms
• Home electronics: up 74.2 % in nominal terms
• Clothing, footwear: up 31.0 % in nominal terms

• Gift: up 39.4 % in nominal terms
  
  https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/joukyou/12.html