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Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
The Honourable Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Japanese Government
l-2-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100-8916, Japan
WHO Representative to Japan
There is no WHO Representative to Japan. Queries about WHO’s programme of collaboration with Japan should be directed to:
Director, Programme Management
World Health Organization
Regional Office for the Western Pacific
United Nations Avenue
P.O. Box 2932, 1000
Manila, the Philippines
The Japanese archipelago, lying off the eastern coast of the Asian continent, stretches in a narrow arc 3800 kilometres long. Japan’s total area is 377 887 square kilometres – slightly larger than the United Kingdom but only about one-ninth the size of India and one-twenty-fifth that of the United States of America – represents less than 0.3% of the world’s land area.
Table 1. Core population and health data (2002 estimates |
|
Population |
[Total] |
127 435 000 |
Life expectancy
at birth (years) |
[Both] |
… |
|
[0-14 years] |
18 102 000 (14.20%) |
[Male] |
78.32 |
|
[65+ years] |
23 628 000 (18.54%) |
[Female] |
85.23 |
|
Crude birth rate
(per 1 000 population) |
|
9.20 |
Total fertility rate |
|
1.32 |
|
Crude death rate
(per 1000 population) |
|
7.80 |
% of population served with safe water |
[Total] |
96.70 |
|
[Urban] |
… |
|
[Rural] |
… |
|
Infant mortality rate
(per 1000 live births) |
|
3.00 |
% of population with adequate sanitary facilities |
[Total] |
98.40 |
|
[Urban] |
… |
|
Maternal mortality rate
(per 100 000 live births) |
|
7.10 |
[Rural] |
… |
a 2002 b 2000
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