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Breakdown of private households Japan 2000-2015 by type

Breakdown of private households in Japan from 2000 to 2015, by type

The data displays a breakdown of private household types in Japan from 2000 to 2015. In 2015, about 34.6% of private households were one-person households in Japan. While nuclear-family households formed the majority throughout the study, the share of one-person households kept growing from 2000 to 2015.

2000 27.6 58.3 14.1
2005 29.5 57.7 12.8
2010 32.4 56.4 11.1
2015 34.6 55.9 9.4