Agricultural population - nougyoujinkou

Japanese: 農業人口 - のうぎょうじんこう

The total number of people engaged in agriculture and their dependents. The number of farm household members includes family members not engaged in agriculture. Of these, only the number of people engaged in agriculture is the agricultural employment population, and refers to those who are mainly engaged in their own farming, including part-time work. Since the 1990 Agriculture and Forestry Census, the agricultural employment population has been limited to farms that operate 10 ares or more or have an annual agricultural income of 150,000 yen or more, and those aged 15 years or older who are engaged in agriculture full-time or mainly are engaged in agriculture. The agricultural population has decreased worldwide as industrialization and economic growth have progressed. In Japan in particular, the birth rate has declined since World War II, young people have moved to cities, and farmers have left farming at an accelerated pace, and the number of farm household members has decreased from 34.41 million in 1960 to 9.4 million in 2003 (from 37% to 7.4% of the total population), and the agricultural employment population has also dropped sharply from 11.96 million in 1960 to 3.62 million in 2003, with the proportion of elderly people aged 60 and over increasing (67% in 2004). On the other hand, there is also a growing interest in nature and a movement to reconsider agriculture as a career, and the number of people from non-farming backgrounds who want to work in agriculture is on the slight increase.
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Japanese:

農業に従事する人と扶養家族の累計。これに農業に従事しない家族を含めたのが農家世帯員数。このうち農業従事者数だけが農業就業人口で，兼業を含め自家農業に主に従事する者をいう。1990年農林業センサスからは10a以上経営か農業収入年15万円以上の農家に限り，満15歳以上の農業専従または農業が主の従事者を農業就業人口とした。世界的に工業化や経済成長につれて農業人口は減少する。とくに日本では，第２次大戦後に出生率の低下，若年層の都市流出，農家の離農が加速し，農家世帯員数は1960年の3441万人から2003年の940万人（総人口比は37％から7.4％），農業就業人口も1960年の1196万人から2003年の362万人に激減，とくに60歳以上の高齢者の割合が高まっている（2004年67％）。一方，自然志向の高まりや農業を職業として見直す動きもみられ，非農家出身の就農希望者も，わずかだが増加傾向にある。
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