Social Protection Statistics in Japan

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Population aged 65+

30%+0.2 pp vs 2024

People receiving government transfers

36.38+32.2% vs 2017

Catastrophic spending risk for surgery

0.5+66.7% vs 2021

People receiving government transfers, women

34.65+22.4% vs 2017

Impoverishing spending risk for surgery

0.10.0% vs 2021

Disability and sickness benefits

0.4%0.0 pp vs 2021

All Social Protection datasets for Japan (45)

Dataset	Source
Received government transfer (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+32.2%
Received government transfer, women (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+22.4%
Received government transfer or pension (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+21.6%
Received government transfer or pension, women (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+19.8%
Received government transfer or pension, men (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+24.2%
Received government transfer or pension: into an account (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+29.9%
Received government transfer or pension: into an account, women (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+27.1%
Received government transfer or pension: into an account, men (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+33.9%
Received government transfer or pension: into bank or similar financial institution account (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+30.2%
Received government transfer or pension: into bank or similar financial institution account, women (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+27.5%
Received a public sector pension (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+2.6%
Received a public sector pension, women (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+14.2%
Received a public sector pension, men (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	−10%
Received government payments (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+19.3%
Received government payments, women (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+18%
Received government payments, men (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+21.2%
Received government payments: into an account (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+27.1%
Received government payments: into an account, women (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+24.7%
Received government payments: into an account, men (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+30.3%
Received government payments: into a bank or similar financial institution account (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+27.4%
Received government payments: into a bank or similar financial institution account, women (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+25.1%
Received government transfer, men (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+43.8%
Received government payments: into a bank or similar financial institution account, men (% age 15+) Gender Statistics	Gender Statistics	+30.5%
Risk of catastrophic expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk) World Development Indicators	World Development Indicators	+66.7%
Risk of impoverishing expenditure for surgical care (% of people at risk) World Development Indicators	World Development Indicators	0%
Household indicators dashboard – indicator view OECD	OECD	+400%
Social insurance pensions International Transfer OECD	OECD	+22.9%
Social insurance pensions OECD	OECD	+22.9%
Sustainable Development Goal 01 - No poverty OECD	OECD	−2.3%
Demographic and economic context OECD	OECD	+0.1%
Design of pension systems OECD	OECD	–
Income and poverty of older people OECD	OECD	–
Pensions at a glance OECD	OECD	–
Pension replacement rates OECD	OECD	–
Pension wealth OECD	OECD	–
Structure of asset-backed pensions OECD	OECD	−2.4%
Pension plan membership OECD	OECD	+30.4%
Operating costs of asset-backed pensions OECD	OECD	−66.7%
Benefit payments and contributions to asset-backed pensions OECD	OECD	−55.2%
Assets earmarked for retirement OECD	OECD	0%
Asset allocation of pension funds and other pension providers OECD	OECD	+3.1%
Net total social expenditure in % GDP OECD	OECD	+10.2%
Public expenditure on disability and sickness cash benefits in % GDP OECD	OECD	0%
Public expenditure on family by type of expenditure (cash and in kind) in % GDP OECD	OECD	−20%
Public expenditure on old-age and survivors cash benefits in % GDP OECD	OECD	−2.1%

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