Tokyo's Population History

In 1920, the population was 3.70 million. Twenty years later, in 1940, 7.35 million. In 1945, the population decreased to 3.49 million, the year World War II ended. From 1945 to 1965, the population increased much more than before, by adding a couple million every year from a higher rate of birth than normal to recover from the war. By doing this, Tokyo exceeded 10 million people in 1963, making it a megacity. After this, the population increase is by much smaller numbers, going up by a few thousand people rather than adding a mass amount of people to the already large population. By 2013, there is over 13 million people in Tokyo.

In Japan, the majority of the population lives

in Honshu, the largset island in Japan. There

are little amounts of people, 0-100, living

in Hokkaido, the island in the north. The most

densly popualted areas with 1000-5514 people in

Japan are those on the coastal regions on the

eastern side, however one on the western side.

The map shows that the most densly populated

areas are those facing the east sea, whereas

the central areas of Japan have 100-200 people

living there per square kilometre.