子年生まれ１０６２万人　新成人は１２２万人―総務省推計

　総務省は３１日、２０２０年１月１日現在の人口推計を公表した。新年のえとである子（ね）年生まれの人口は１０６２万人で、総人口に占める割合は８．４％。十二支の中では亥（い）年、丑（うし）年に続き３番目に多い。１９９９年生まれの新成人は１２２万人で、前年より３万人減少した。
　子年生まれは男性が５１６万人、女性が５４６万人。年代別では第１次ベビーブーム世代で、７２歳の誕生日を迎える１９４８年生まれが２０９万人と最多。４８歳になる７２年生まれが２００万人、６０歳になる６０年生まれが１５１万人と続いた。最も若い１２歳になる２００８年生まれは１０８万人で、１９４８年生まれのほぼ半数だった。
　子年生まれの著名人には、映画監督の庵野秀明さん（６０年生まれ）、タレントの中居正広さん（７２年生まれ）、サッカーの長谷部誠さん（８４年生まれ）、スキージャンプの高梨沙羅さん（９６年生まれ）らがいる。
　新成人は男性が６３万人、女性が５９万人。総人口に占める割合は０．９７％で、１０年連続で１％を下回った。（2020/01/01-07:23）

The total number of Japanese born in the Year of the Rat is estimated at about 10.62 million as of Wednesday, the first day of 2020, which features the animal from the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac, according to an internal affairs ministry report.
   Year of the Rat-born people--5.16 million men and 5.46 million women--account for 8.4 pct of Japan's population, constituting the third-largest group after the Year of the Boar-born and Year of the Ox-born groups.
   Of the Rat-year people, the number of those who were born in 1948, in the "first baby boom" generation in Japan, and will turn 72 this year, is the largest, at 2.09 million.
   The second- and third-largest Rat-year groups are two million people born in 1972 and 1.51 million born in 1960, respectively. Those in the second-largest group will mark their 48th birthday this year, and those in the third-largest group their 60th birthday. People who were born in 2008, the previous Year of the Rat, and will turn 12 this year account for 1.08 million.
   Japanese celebrities and athletes born in the Year of the Rat include 1972-born Masahiro Nakai, former leader of disbanded male pop group SMAP, 1984-born soccer player Makoto Hasebe and 1996-born ski jumper Sara Takanashi.