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Japan
Assessments and Projections from Outlook for Fish to 2020: Meeting Global Demand
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- Under the baseline scenario, Japan will consume a projected 7.4 million metric tons of food fish in 2020, but will only produce 5.2 million metric tons.
- In 2020, people in Japan will eat a projected 60.2 kilograms (kg) of fish per person per year. This will be a slight decline from the 62.6 kg per year consumed in 1997, but will be nearly three times the average for developed countries, where consumption is projected to be 21.5 kg per person per year in 2020.
- Overall, annual production of fish for food in Japan will hold virtually constant over the next twenty years, with only a slight drop projected, from 5.19 million metric tons in 1997 to 5.17 in 2020.
- Production from wild fisheries will drop, while fish farming production in Japan in 2020 will be 32 percent higher than in 1997.
- Production of high-value finfish from aquaculture is projected to increase by 53 percent between 1997 and 2020. Fish farming, however, will only make up 10 percent of all high-value finfish produced in Japan.
- Net imports of high-value finfish in Japan in 2020 will be 1.9 million metric tons.
Other facts about Japan:
- Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world at 81.1 years. (World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2003)
- Japan has one of the highest population densities in the world at 340 per square kilometer, and the density is even higher in urban areas due to the large amount of uninhabitable land. (Embassy of Japan in the United Kingdom, 2001)
- Overall gross domestic product growth in Japan in 2001 was -0.6 percent, as exports declined and imports increased. (World Bank, World Development Indicators, 2003)
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