According to Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications estimates, 1.12 million people will enter the New Year at the age of 18.
Also, in order to compare with the past, the number of 20-year-olds is 1.17 million, the lowest number since we started collecting estimates.
The revised Civil Code came into effect in April this year, and the age of adulthood was lowered from 20 to 18.
Based on this, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications compiled the number of new adults who will reach the age of 18 on New Year's Day for the first time.
There were 570,000 males and 540,000 females aged 18, totaling 1.12 million, or 0.89% of Japan's total population.
In addition, 19 years old was 1.13 million people.
The number of 20-year-olds who have been announced as "new adults" so far is 1.17 million, a decrease of 60,000 compared to the previous year and the lowest since 1968, when estimates began.
On the other hand, there will be 4.85 million males and 5.13 million females born in the year of the rabbit next year, for a total of 10 million people.
The largest number of people born in the year of the rabbit is 1.86 million born in 1975, who will turn 48 next year, followed by 1.71 million born in 1951, who will turn 72, and 1.71 million, who will turn 60 in 1963. 1.57 million people were born.