Over 2.12M people on welfare

Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare revealed that the number of people receiving welfare public assistance from the government was record high of 2,124,669 in July 2012 increased 9,192 from previous month.
The number of households on welfare was 1,549,773 increased 6,989 from the month before. Among them, 671,572 or 40 percents were elderly households, 298,703 were households with the sick or the injured and 283,062 were others including the households with people capable of working.


生活保護受給者、最多を更新　７月時点で２１２万人超　―朝日新聞デジタル
http://www.asahi.com/national/update/1024/TKY201210240145.html

Population of people over 65 reached 30M

The day before Respect for the Aged Day(September 17th) Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications revealed that the Japanese population of people over 65 years old has become the record high of 30.74 million, increased by 1.02 million from last year.
On the other hand, population of the people aged between 0 to 64 decreased by 1.28 million from last year. The ratio of old people above 65 in the total Japanese population(127.53 million) also reached the record high of 24.1 percents, increased by 0.8 points from last year.
Among the people over 65, there are 13.15 males and 17.59 females. Population of people over 75 was 15.17 million and over 85 was 4.30 million.
Among the people over 65, 16.4 percents are living alone.


65歳以上の高齢者、3000万人超す　「団塊」到達で　―日本経済新聞
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFS16001_W2A910C1000000/?dg=1