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Japan's elderly population reaches record 29.4% of total

Rank
Ran
14h
Updated
6d ago
Final
Outlets
5
Regions
3
Countries
5
Languages
4

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Anadolu Agency Turkey · English 29 Sept, 07:48 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Tiếng Việt (1) · Српски (1) · العربية (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 5 after 15 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Anadolu Agency, 29 Sept, 07:48 UTC.
  2. Second country: Japan, with The Mainichi.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Mainichi.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 29 Sept, 07:48 UTC.
  5. Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

15 of 15 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%

First movers

  1. Anadolu Agency 29 Sept, 07:48 UTC
  2. The Mainichi +0m
  3. Sky News Arabia +36m
  4. Blic +1h
  5. Thanh Niên +5h 48m

The figures

Coverage
5 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 2 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 2: Japan, Vietnam. Europe 1: Serbia. Middle East 2: Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, English, Serbian, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Anadolu Agency, 29 Sept 2026, 07:48 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 07:50 UTC. Last seen 29 Sept 2026, 22:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Japan. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
29 Sept 2026 215 5.93 5 5 5 5 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 07:50 UTC · Updated 22:30 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

  • The Mainichi Japan 29 Sept, 22:30 UTC
    Japan elderly population hits fresh high at 29.4%: 2025 census
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    • Japan elderly population hits fresh high at 29.4%: 2025 census 29 Sept, 07:48 UTC
  • Thanh Niên Vietnam 29 Sept, 13:37 UTC
    Nhóm người từ 65 tuổi trở lên đạt mức cao kỷ lục ở Nhật Bản

Europe 1 outlet

  • Blic Serbia 29 Sept, 08:48 UTC
    Nacija koja ubrzano stari: Japan izgubio više od 3 miliona stanovnika, skoro 30 odsto stanovništva starije od 65 godina

Middle East 2 outlets

  • Sky News Arabia United Arab Emirates 29 Sept, 08:24 UTC
    تسارع الشيخوخة في اليابان.. نسبة كبار السن تسجل مستوى قياسيا
  • Anadolu Agency Turkey 29 Sept, 07:48 UTC
    Japan sees record elderly population as overall count falls for 3rd consecutive census
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