Tokyo is, by most measures, the richest city in the world. When it comes to working age people, the labor force is divided as follows: Clerical, Technical and Management (42.3%), Sales and Services (26.2%), Manufacturing and Transport (17.7%) and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (0.4%). That means that, every day, approximately 2,400,000 people commute into Tokyo. In 2015, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government estimated the nighttime and daytime population of the city, finding that although the city's population was around 15.576 million in the daytime, this decreased to 13.159 million in the middle of the night. That means that many of the people in the city at any one time don't actually live in the city itself they commute in each day for work. There is no firm data on the population of Tokyo in 2016, so the figures listed here are estimates based on the city's growth rate and preliminary 2015 census figures. The latest census data, used above, is from 2010. Since then, growth has been steady, rather than spectacular, and although Tokyo's economy has (like Japan's) under-performed in recent years, its population continues to slowly rise. It took less than a decade for the city to recover to its pre-war population levels, and in 1956, Tokyo's population passed 8 million for the first time. The population rapidly grew again after the war, perhaps indicating that many of its residents had temporarily left the city. Gradual attrition accounted for much of the decline, although the massive Allied air raids also took a staggering toll – at least 100,000 were killed in the US Air Force firebombing of Tokyo on March 9 1945, and around a million were estimated to have been left homeless. World War II saw the only major population decline in the city's history (although there have been other smaller declines over the years.) Tokyo's population halved in just five years, and when Japan surrendered in 1945, its population was just 3.5 million. By 1900, its population had passed 2 million for the first time, and by the start of the 1940s, the wider metropolitan area was home to more than 7 million people. Renamed Tokyo in 1868, the city continued to grow rapidly. It used to be known as Edo, and grew from a small village to become, in the 1720s, the first city in Asia with a population of more than 1 million people. Tokyo has always been Japan's largest city, and one of the mightiest cities in Asia, if not the world.
Now, to find the rough population density of the Tokyo area, we combine the total population with the available space for the residents, which comes to 6,224.66 people living per square kilometer (16,121.8 residents per square mile). However, the city expands outwards to approximately 13,572 km2 (5,240 square miles). The surface area of the city metropolis comes to approximately 2,187.66 km2 (844.66 square miles). Its 23 wards are almost three times as large as Yokohama, Japan's second city, which has around 3.7 million residents. The metropolitan area is so large, in fact, that it is 1.5 times larger than the world's next largest metropolitan area, Seoul.īy any measure, Tokyo is the largest city in Japan. That means the greater Tokyo area is home to 25% of Japan's population, and it's the most populous metropolitan area in the world. The greater Tokyo metropolitan area, which is spread over 3 prefectures, is much larger and has a population that is estimated to be over 36 million. The 23 wards claim a population of 9.2 million, but the metropolis has a population that exceeds 13 million. The population of Tokyo may be a bit hard to understand because of the way the figures are laid out.
This does not include the population of the metro area, which we will get into in a moment. But the story doesn't end there - the Tokyo urban area extends beyond even the prefecture's boundaries.Īccording to a 2016 estimate of Tokyo's population, the metropolis is now home to 13.5 million people, or 9,262,046 in all of the 23 wards. The Tokyo prefecture, into which Tokyo city was merged, was home to 13,047,446 people in 2010. Today, Tokyo extends way beyond the original city boundaries, and is one of the largest urban sprawls in the world, which doesn't make it easy to explain exactly how many people live in Tokyo. The 23 wards made up the boundaries of the historic city of Tokyo, which was officially dissolved in 1943 when it merged with the prefecture. According to recent estimates, the 23 wards that make up the city of Tokyo had an approximate 2016 population of 9,262,046.
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