About 11 years from 1.8 million person breakthrough.

About 11 years from 1.8 million person breakthrough.

Sapporoshi announced that the population of the city (As at one in May) had exceeded 1.9 million people for the first time on the 12th. Break-downs are 890,905 men, 1,010,751 women, and total is 1,901,656 people.

Municipal administration Kicacb : about 1.9 million person breakthrough. ｢The population is one of the standards by which the vitality of the city is measured. The population growth is preferable in the meaning that the vitality of Sapporo increases. ｣It spoke.  
　
The population growth rate of the city continues less than 0.5% from 2005, and tends to the slowdown. The transition of the population dimension exceeds 1.7 million people in March, 1992. Afterwards, 11 months of ten longer years were required up to 1.9 million people by three months of six years by the time 1.8 million people were exceeded. The population of Sapporo is the fourth that follows Yokohama, Osaka, and Nagoya in the government-designated major city.

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