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More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

217 points · 282 comments · karakoram

dzink · 1789687082 · focus · HN ↗
“A government audit of family registries in Japan in 2010 uncovered more than 230,000 people listed as being aged 100 or older who were unaccounted for, some having died decades previously. The miscounting was attributed to patchy record-keeping and suspicions that some families may have tried to hide the deaths of elderly relatives in order to claim their pensions“ Thus they need to redo the audit in 2026.
1. SapporoChris · 1789743848 · focus · HN ↗
  Of course the Japanese government hasn't been sitting idle for 16 years.
  <a href="https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/26/11" rel="nofollow">https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/26/11 "In Japan 234,354 people registered before 1910 remained on the family registers in 2010, without being crossed out. They would have been 100 years old at least and represent 0.5% of the births recorded between 1872 and 1910. The impact of this group on life expectancy statistics, however, is effectively nil. "

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