When pressure builds up, or tectonic plates shift, or where the crust is thin, volcanoes can erupt. There are 1,511 known volcanoes, 500 of which are active. Every now and then, a new one forms, as happened in 1943 in Paricutin, Mexico.
The average life expectancy for Japanese men is 80.5 years of age, while for women, life expectancy was calculated at 86.83 years of age, Fuji TV reported Friday.
Population goes down in Japan. Japan ended 2015 with a population of 126,926,000 people, which represents a decrease of 194,000 people compared to 2014. Japan ranks No. 11 among196 countries which published this information in countryeconomy.com. The female population is greater, with 65,282,393 women, representing 51.35% of the total, compared to 61,849,407 or 48.65% men. Japan has a high population density, with 336 people per square km and it was in position 172th in our ranking of density population in 2015 . In this page we show you the progression of the population in Japan.