Poverty rate Japan 1994-2021

Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 20, 2023
In 2021, the poverty rate in Japan was 15.4 percent. The rate has been on a downward trend since it peaked in 2012 at 16.1 percent. The poverty rate refers to the ratio of the number of people whose income is less than half the median household income of the total population.

Poverty rate in Japan from 1994 to 2021

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Release date

July 2023

Region

Japan

Survey time period

1994 to 2021

Supplementary notes

*Calculated excluding the figures for Hyogo prefecture.
**Calculated excluding the figures for Kumamoto prefecture.
***Figures are based on the new definition of disposal income revised in 2015 by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and exclude automobile tax, light vehicle tax, vehicle weight tax, corporate pension contributions, and the amount of remittance.

Poverty is defined as living with less than half of the median national disposable income.

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