Mie Prefecture’s Foreign Resident Population Falls to 41,221 People

Foreign Resident Nationality and Population Survey Figures (as of December 31^st, 2013)

Mie Prefectural Government conducts an annual survey of Mie’s foreign resident population in cooperation with town and city governments across Mie. The latest figures for 2013 are available below. For more information please visit the Mie Prefecture Multicultural Affairs Division homepage at the following address: http://www.pref.mie.lg.jp/TABUNKA/HP/

Note: Foreign resident population figures taken pre-2011 are based on the foreign resident population as registered under the Alien Registration Law.

2013 is the fifth consecutive year in which the foreign resident population of Mie Prefecture has fallen with a total population of 41,221 foreign residents (a 1.4% drop of 590 people in comparison with the previous year).

・  The foreign resident population in Mie is 1.03 times larger than it was ten years ago in 2003, and 3.95 times bigger than it was in 1989.

・  The percentage of foreign to Japanese residents in Mie Prefecture also fell, with the percentage of foreign residents making up just 2.21% of the total population.
（Reference data from 2012: 2.33% based on figures by the Ministry of Justice’s Statistics on Foreign Residents, ranked third in Japan）

Analyzing the figures by nationality, Brazilian residents make up the largest proportion of non-Japanese residents in Mie Prefecture (12,002 people, a reduction of 5.3% from the previous year), followed by Chinese residents (9,015 people, a reduction of 3.6%), and Filipino residents (5,646 people, an increase of 6.7% from the previous year). The foreign residents living in Mie Prefecture come from a total of 102 countries and regions across the globe (up from 98 in 2012).

Looking at the results by location, Yokkaichi City has the largest number of foreign residents (7,646 people, making up 2.44% of the population), followed by Tsu City (7,157 people, 2.44% of the total population), and Suzuka City (7,066 people, 3.51% of the total population). The highest proportion of foreign residents to Japanese citizens was in Iga City, with foreign residents making up 4.42% of the population, followed by Kisosaki City (4.06%) and Suzuka City (3.51%).

Korean in the above chart refers to those who are registered as originating from the Korean Peninsula. Chinese in the above chart also includes those of Taiwanese origin.

The top five nationalities in Mie Prefecture and the cities with the largest population of that nationality are listed below. The percentages listed inside brackets refer to the percentage of the Mie foreign resident population as a whole.

The towns and cities with the most foreign residents are listed below. 91.5% of the total population of foreign residents in Mie Prefecture are located in the following locations.