Japan: proportion of coronavirus (COVID-19) patients per 100,000 inhabitants by prefecture 2020

As of April 17, 2020, Tokyo Prefecture recorded the highest density of people infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) among all 47 prefectures in Japan, with approximately 20.1 infected people per 100 thousand inhabitants in the prefecture. Ishikawa Prefecture recorded the second highest density, with around 14.1 people per 100 thousand inhabitants in the prefecture being infected with the virus. There was an average of around 7.8 infected people per 100 thousand inhabitants in Japan during the measured time period.

In terms of the total number of infection cases, Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture were the two prefectures with the highest number of patients of COVID-19 as of April 2020.

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Proportion of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases per 100,000 inhabitants in Japan as of April 17, 2020, by prefecture

Characteristic	Propotion of patients per 100,000 inhabitants
Tokyo	20.1
Ishikawa	14.1
Fukui	13.5
Osaka	12.2
Chiba	10.1
Fukuoka	9.4
Kyoto	9.1
Kochi	9
Hyogo	8.8
Saitama	8
Kanagawa	7.7
Toyama	7.7
Hokkaido	7
Okinawa	7
Gifu	6.8
Gunma	5.9
Yamanashi	5.7
Yamagata	5.4
Aichi	5.1
Shiga	4.8
Wakayama	4.8
Oita	4.8
Ibaraki	4.6
Hiroshima	4.4
Nara	4.2
Miyagi	3.4
Ehime	3.1
Fukushima	2.8
Kagawa	2.5
Niigata	2.4
Tochigi	2.3
Nagano	2.3
Shimane	2.2
Yamaguchi	2.2
Saga	2
Kumamoto	2
Aomori	1.8
Mie	1.8
Akita	1.7
Miyazaki	1.6
Shizuoka	1.4
Nagasaki	1.3
Okayama	1
Tokushima	0.4
Kagoshima	0.4
Tottori	0.2
Iwate	0

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April 2020

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Japan

Survey time period

April 17, 2020

Supplementary notes

The source calculated the proportion of cases by normalizing the number of total inhabitants of each prefecture to 100,000.

The calculations are based on the data of 9,852 people with COVID-19 infection reported on April 17, 2020 as well as the estimate of population in Japan as of October 1, 2019.

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