Parental leave acquisition rate Japan 1996-2023, by gender

Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 6, 2024

In 2023, around 80 percent of female employees in Japan who bore a child in the previous year, and more than 17 percent of male employees were taking parental leave. Although the childcare leave acquisition rate of male employees who newly became parents remained much lower compared to that of female employees, the rate increased continuously since 2012.

Ratio of employees taking parental leave in Japan from 1996 to 2023, by gender

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July 2024

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Japan

Survey time period

1996 to 2023

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Parental leave acquisition rate = among those giving birth, the share of employees who started (or applied for) parental leave in the past year prior to the beginning of the survey on October 1 in the respective year* / number of employees who had a child within the past year prior to the survey. (In case of men, the share of those whose spouse gave birth.)

*1996 to 2010: Within one year until March 31 of the previous year

Figures from the fiscal year 2011 did not include data of the prefectures Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima.

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