Japan · prefecture
Miyazaki population 2026
宮崎県
Miyazaki has 1,033,000 people on the latest official figure, for 1 October 2024 (published to the nearest thousand), 9,000 fewer than a year earlier (−0.86%). It is 35th of Japan’s 47 prefectures by population, home to 0.8% of Japan’s people.
If last year’s change continues: about 1 million by 1 July 2026. That is our arithmetic, not an official figure.
Miyazaki in numbers
- Population
- 1 million 1 October 2024
- Change in a year
- −0.86% −9,000 people
- Share of Japan
- 0.8% 35th of 47 prefectures
- Population density
- 134per km² 7,736 km²
That is about as many people as Fiji (937 thousand).
Population of Miyazaki by year
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| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1,061,000 |
| 2022 | 1,052,000 |
| 2023 | 1,042,000 |
| 2024 | 1,033,000 |
| Year | Population | Change | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,033,000 | −9,000 | −0.86% |
| 2023 | 1,042,000 | −10,000 | −0.95% |
| 2022 | 1,052,000 | −9,000 | −0.85% |
| 2021 | 1,061,000 | – | – |
Miyazaki among Japan’s prefectures
Full ranking →| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tokyo | 14,178,000 | +0.65% | 11.5% | 6,462 |
| 2 | Kanagawa | 9,225,000 | −0.04% | 7.5% | 3,818 |
| 3 | Osaka | 8,757,000 | −0.07% | 7.1% | 4,596 |
| 4 | Aichi | 7,460,000 | −0.23% | 6.0% | 1,442 |
| 5 | Saitama | 7,332,000 | +0.01% | 5.9% | 1,931 |
| 6 | Chiba | 6,251,000 | −0.10% | 5.0% | 1,212 |
| 7 | Hyogo | 5,337,000 | −0.61% | 4.3% | 635 |
| 8 | Fukuoka | 5,092,000 | −0.22% | 4.1% | 1,024 |
| 9 | Hokkaido | 5,043,000 | −0.96% | 4.1% | 60 |
| 10 | Shizuoka | 3,527,000 | −0.79% | 2.8% | 453 |
| 11 | Ibaraki | 2,806,000 | −0.67% | 2.3% | 460 |
| 12 | Hiroshima | 2,714,000 | −0.88% | 2.2% | 320 |
| 13 | Kyoto | 2,520,000 | −0.59% | 2.0% | 546 |
| 14 | Miyagi | 2,248,000 | −0.71% | 1.8% | 309 |
| 15 | Niigata | 2,099,000 | −1.27% | 1.7% | 167 |
| 16 | Nagano | 1,987,000 | −0.85% | 1.6% | 146 |
| 17 | Gifu | 1,916,000 | −0.78% | 1.5% | 180 |
| 18 | Gunma | 1,890,000 | −0.63% | 1.5% | 297 |
| 19 | Tochigi | 1,885,000 | −0.63% | 1.5% | 294 |
| 20 | Okayama | 1,831,000 | −0.87% | 1.5% | 257 |
| 21 | Fukushima | 1,743,000 | −1.36% | 1.4% | 126 |
| 22 | Mie | 1,711,000 | −0.93% | 1.4% | 296 |
| 23 | Kumamoto | 1,697,000 | −0.70% | 1.4% | 229 |
| 24 | Kagoshima | 1,532,000 | −1.10% | 1.2% | 168 |
| 25 | Okinawa | 1,466,000 | −0.14% | 1.2% | 643 |
| 26 | Shiga | 1,402,000 | −0.35% | 1.1% | 349 |
| 27 | Nara | 1,285,000 | −0.85% | 1.0% | 348 |
| 28 | Yamaguchi | 1,281,000 | −1.31% | 1.0% | 210 |
| 29 | Ehime | 1,276,000 | −1.16% | 1.0% | 225 |
| 30 | Nagasaki | 1,252,000 | −1.18% | 1.0% | 305 |
| 31 | Aomori | 1,165,000 | −1.60% | 0.9% | 121 |
| 32 | Iwate | 1,145,000 | −1.55% | 0.9% | 75 |
| 33 | Ishikawa | 1,098,000 | −0.99% | 0.9% | 262 |
| 34 | Oita | 1,085,000 | −1.00% | 0.9% | 171 |
| 35 | Miyazaki | 1,033,000 | −0.86% | 0.8% | 134 |
| 36 | Yamagata | 1,011,000 | −1.46% | 0.8% | 108 |
| 37 | Toyama | 997,000 | −0.99% | 0.8% | 235 |
| 38 | Kagawa | 917,000 | −0.97% | 0.7% | 493 |
| 39 | Akita | 897,000 | −1.86% | 0.7% | 77 |
| 40 | Wakayama | 880,000 | −1.34% | 0.7% | 186 |
| 41 | Yamanashi | 791,000 | −0.63% | 0.6% | 177 |
| 42 | Saga | 788,000 | −0.88% | 0.6% | 323 |
| 43 | Fukui | 739,000 | −0.67% | 0.6% | 176 |
| 44 | Tokushima | 685,000 | −1.44% | 0.6% | 165 |
| 45 | Kochi | 656,000 | −1.50% | 0.5% | 92 |
| 46 | Shimane | 642,000 | −1.23% | 0.5% | 96 |
| 47 | Tottori | 531,000 | −1.12% | 0.4% | 151 |
Largest cities in Miyazaki
City proper, not the wider metro area; latest figure in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), so years differ.
- Miyazaki401,339
- Miyakonojō161,137
- Nobeoka119,521
- Hyūga60,037
- Nichinan51,241
- Kobayashi44,154
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Source and method
Statistics Bureau of Japan, Population Estimates. Reuse with credit under the e-Gov terms. Total area, Wikidata. Prefecture estimates are published in thousands each spring; results of the 2025 census will supersede them. Ranks, shares and changes are our arithmetic on the published figures. National figures can differ from the UN’s projection for Japan, which uses a different method. The 2026 figure above carries last year’s change forward; it does not come from the source.
Cite this page: Miyazaki population, Statistics Bureau of Japan, 1 October 2024. GlobeMetrics, https://globemetrics.org/world-population/japan/miyazaki/
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