An increasing number of people in Japan age 65 and above — a demographic group that makes up 29.1% of the total population — are experiencing loneliness compared with 2018, a government white paper on the country's aging society shows.
The report came just months after Japan marked a milestone of having people age 80 and over make up slightly more than 10% of its population.
The white paper was based on a survey conducted in 2023 that asked 2,677 people age 65 and above how many friends they had.