日 노인 비율 28.4% 세계 최고…2•3위는 이탈리아•포르투갈<br /> Japan's elderly people accounted for 28 percent of its population in 2018, the highest proportion in the world.<br /> Japanese government data showed on Sunday... the number of those aged 65 or older stood at around 35-point-9 million people, up point-3 percent from the year before.<br />Italy was second in the chart with 23 percent, followed by Portugal, Finland and Greece. <br />South Korea's elderly account for 15 percent of its population. <br />Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research said, however, that South Korea will top the chart by 2050 mainly due to its extremely low birth rate. <br />
