Japan in the risk of poverty rate hit a record high in 2009

 (Kyodo) — Japan, in 2009 the risk of poverty rate hit a record high, the%, up 0.3 percentage points since 2006, as the population increased to man age the less shares and the income of 65 or older and of the Ministry of welfare of the employees of nonregular said on Tuesday.

The relative risk of poverty rate, which represents the share of the population of the people whose annual income is less than half of the national median real incomes should the highest since the Government began compiling the tax rate in 1985. In 2009, the national median real incomes amounted to 2.24 million yen ($ 28,000).
Interest shall be calculated every three years, has risen to almost 12.0% in the first years of ongoing, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.
In June and July 2010, the national livelihood survey also said the Ministry of Justice on the basis of the child poverty rate, which indicates the proportion of children aged 17 or younger living in poor households, with an annual income below half the level of the inguinal, also hit a record high to 15.7% in 2009.
The average annual household income rose by 0.4% in 2009, the 5, 000 yen, the Ministry of the 496, said.
Households with elderly people, including 17 or younger, the number of children and elderly people became the big 10, records for the estimated 207, 000 in the year 2010, ACCOUNTING for 21% of the total.
The record of the survey, the percentage of 59.4 value corresponds to the households, said, it is difficult to make ends meet.
Income statistics were based on the data, covering around 26,000 households, even though the data were obtained from the household of about 230,000 specimens.

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