Measuring Japan's Demographic Collapse in Diapers

By Greg Scoblete
July 12, 2013

Adult diapers sales surge in Japan.

By 2020, Japanese diaper manufacturers expect to sell more adult diapers than baby ones.

According to Adam Pasick, the Japanese adult diaper industry is already growing briskly thanks to Japan's growing population of elderly. Twenty percent of Japan's population is over 65 years old, the highest percentage anywhere in the world.

Incontinence is big business.

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