Current State of Hokkaido
Size The size of Hokkaido is 83,424 km2, 22% of Japan’s total land area.
2 Japan 377,975km 2 Hokkaido 83,424km .. （include in the northern territories.） Hokkaido 83,424km2
Ratio 22.1%
Kanto Koshinetsu 63,045km2
Kyusyu and Chugoku 74,153km2 . Austria 83,878km2
Korea 100,339km2 Kanto Koshinetsu 63,045km2
Kyusyu and Kyusyu and Chugoku Okinawa Hokkaido 74,153km2 12% 22% Shikoku Note: 5% ・ Chugoku The area of Hokkaido include the northern territories (Habomai Islands, Shikotan Island, Kunashiri Island, Etorofu 8% Island), but exclude Boundary undecided. Kinki ・The map doesn’t exactly show the whole territory due to 7% Tohoku limitation of space. 18% Source: Chubu ・ Statistics Bureau,Ministry of Internal Affairs and 8% Communications [The World Statistics 2020] Hokuriku Kanto ・Geographical Information Authority of Japan 7% 13% [Statistical reports on the land area by prefectures and municipalities in Japan 2019]
Population The population of Hokkaido is 5.38million in 2015 and the population density is 68.6 people per km2, which is only 1/5 as high as national average. Compared with the other regions in Japan, local communities have been sparsely distributed in Hokkaido. Population Japan 127.11 million Regional population density
6,168.1 Hokkaido 5.38 million 16,,620000 Ratio 4.2% 16,,400000 1,200 1,000 910.2 Population Density 757.9 800 National average 2 National Average 340.8 per km 600 340.8 512.3 2 324.7 Hokkaido 68.6 per km 400 210.8 233.1 204.6 134.2 200 68.6 0 ： Hokkaido Tohoku Kanto Hokuriku Chubu Kinki Chugoku Shikoku Kyushu Tokyo Note For calculation, the areas of the northern territories are （person/㎢） and excluded. Okinawa Source：・ Statistics Bureau,Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications [2015 Population Census of Japan] 1 Circumstance in a wide-area distributed society
The average distance between cities (Population sizes of the nearest city) 19 2times N全ati国onal average 2万≧人2以0,0上00 38 【Scale of Hokkaido】 H北okk海aid道o 22 2.9times The distance between 4万≧人4以0,0上00 63 cities is more than 2 times as far as the national 32 average. 10万≧人10以0,0上00 68 2.1times 2.4times 59 30万≧人30以0,0上00 139 Wakkanai （km） - 40 80 120 160
Note: Remote islands are excluded for calculation. Abashiri Source： National Integrated Transport Analysis System Rumoi Asahikawa
Iwamizawa Obihiro Nemuro Kucchan Average time needed to travel to Sapporo Kushiro Emergency Medical Care Centers Muroran Urakawa In Hokkaido, it takes 66min to Esashi Hakodate transport patients to National Average 全国 35min emergency medical care (exp.Hokkaido) centers, which is 1.9 times longer than the national average. Hokk北ai海do道 66min
0 20 40 60 80 （分） Source ：National Integrated Transport Analysis System
Climate The annual mean temperature in Sapporo is 8.9℃. The lowest monthly mean temperature is -3.6℃ in January Sapporo is one of metropolitan cities which are famous for snow and cold temperature in the world.
（The Lowest Temperature：℃） 10
London Tokyo 5 Paris Shanghai New York Copenhagen Washington （Average Berlin Temperature：℃） 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Stockholm Sapporo Beijing Oslo -5 Helsinki
Moscow
-10 Montreal
-15
Source : National Astronomical Observatory of Japan [Chronological Scientific Tables (2020)]
2 Economy Regional GDP in Hokkaido is 18.2 trillion yen. Agriculture, forestry and fisheries sector constitutes 3.3% of GDP in Hokkaido, which is higher than that of National and GDP, while the proportion of Manufacturing sector of Hokkaido is about as half Industry portion as that of National GDP. Gross Domestic Production in Hokkaido and Japan Agriculture, forestry Agriculture, forestry and and fisheries, 3.3% fisheries, 0.8%
Others Others Manufacturing 12.0% 13.5% 10.5% Manufacturing, 21.2% Construction 7.3% Hokkaido Japan Services Construction FY2016 25.2% FY2016 5.5% Wholesale and 533.2 trillion yen Services 29.2% 18.2 trillion yen retail trade 13.2% Wholesale and Information and retail trade communications 12.9% Real estate Information and Real estate 11.8% 5.0% communications 12.4% 3.9%
Transport 6.9% Transport, 4.7%, Source：・Cabinet Office [2016 Annual Report on Prefectural Accounts]
Public grosss expenditure rate of Hokkaido reaches 35.5%, which is higher than that of National Average. The proportion of public spending, to the regional gross domestic expenditure(FY2016) （％） 40
35 8.0 30 10.0 6.8 6.3
25 5.0 4.4 20 3.5 3.0 3.5 15 27.5 26.0 25.6 25.7 22.2 10 18.4 19.5 17.4 15.5 5
0 Hokkaido Tohoku Kanto Chubu Kinki Chugoku Shikoku Kyushu Whole Country
Government final consumption expendure Government fixed capital formation Source：Cabinet Office [2016 Annual Report on Prefectural Accounts] 3 Employment 1. Unemployment Rates Trend of the unemployment rates in Hokkaido continue to exceed that of the whole country, and the employment situation remains severe.
（％） 5 Whole Country Hokkaido 3.9 4 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.2 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.5 3.1 3 3.4 3.4 2.9 2.8 3 3 2.8 2.8 3.2 3.1 3.1 3 2.9 2.9 2.4 2.3 2.8 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.4 2 2.1 2.2 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 （Year, month） Note：original numerical value Source： Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Statistics Bureau [Labor Force Survey]
2. Effective ratio of job offers to applicants Compared with the whole country, effective ratio of job offers to applicants in Hokkaido remains low.
（ ） times 1.63 1.7 1.62 1.62 1.57 1.59 1.61 1.62 1.59 1.6 1.52 1.49 1.57 1.44 1.5 1.37 1.41 1.36 1.4 1.29 1.26 1.3 1.22 1.18 1.27 1.15 1.2 1.24 1.1 1.2 1.17 1.18 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.15 1.12 1.0 1.09 1.1 1.03 1.05 1.04 0.9 1.02 0.95 0.98 0.97 0.8 0.92
0.7 Whole Country
0.6 Hokkaido 0.5 0.4 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 1～3 4～6 7～9 10～12 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Note： Seasonally adjusted figure Source： Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare [General Employment Placement Situation] （Year, Month）
4 Agriculture Hokkaido has very large farming area (about one-fourth of that of Japan). The agricultural output in 2018 was 1.259 billion yen, which accounted for about 14% of Japan. Current State of Hokkaido Agriculture Whole Nationwide Investigation Articles Unit Hokkaido country ratio year 1,000 The total number of farm households 44 2,155 2.1% 2015 households 1,000 The number of commercial farm households 35 1,130 3.1% 2019 households Include the number of full-time farm 1,000 25 236 10.6% 2019 households households Commercial farmers 1,000 people 88 1,681 5.2% 2019 (commercial farm households) Cultivated land area 1,000 ha 1,144 4,397 26.0% 2019 Cultivated acreage under management area per one management body ha 28.5 3.0 9.5times 2019 (commercial farm households) The number of animal feeding Dairy cattle 1,000 cattle 801 1,332 60.1% 2019 Beef cattle 1,000 cattle 513 2,503 20.5% 2019 Number of dairy cattle per household cattle 134.2 58.5 2.3times 2019 Agricultural output Billion yen 12,593 91,283 13.8% 2018 Note：Cultivated acreage under management area per one management body and the number of dairy cattle per household area value except Hokkaido. Source：Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [Census of Agriculture and Forestry 2015], [2019 Cultivated Land Area and Planted Area Statistics], [2019 Live Stock Statistics], [2018 Production Agriculture Income Statistics]
Hokkaido contributes as the largest food supply, and has a large share of production of potatoes, onions, wheat, soybeans, red beans, beets and so on. Agricultural and livestock products which Hokkaido products the largest volume in Japan 100%
80%
60% 100 93 40% 77 62 62 54 20% 39 39 41 38 29 19 0%
Hokkaido Exclude Hokkaido
Source：Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [2018 Vegetable Production Shipment Statistics], [2018 Crop Statistics], [2018 Milk Dairy-Products Statistics], [2018 Livestock Product Circulation Statistics] 5 The rate of food self-sufficiency in Hokkaido reached about 200% in FY2017. Hokkaido plays an important role for securing of stable supply of food in Japan.
Ranking of the Rate of Food Self-Sufficiency in Japan (FY2017) Domestic share of Calorie-based （％） Food Self-Sufficiency 250 206 Hokkaido, 200 188 23.0%
150 137 117 Calories produced by each 103 101 93 Others, Niigata, 82 57.0% prefecture 4.9% 100 76 75 (FY2017) Ibaraki, 4.4% 50 38 Akita, 4.0% Chiba, 0 3.4% Miyagi, 3.4% Source：Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [Food Self-Sufficiency rate] Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Source：Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [Food Self- Communications Sufficiency rate] [Estimate of the Population]
Fisheries Hokkaido has a large share of the Quantity of catches of marine fisheries and the aquaculture, which are larger than any other prefecture.
Current State of Hokkaido Fishery Industry（FY2018） Hokkaido Whole Country Nationwide Ratio
Articles Quantity of Value of Quantity of Value of Quantity of Value of catches production catches production catches production (1,000 ton) (billion yen) (1,000 ton) (billion yen) (%) (%) Marine fisheries and 996 2,750 4,364 14,238 22.8% 19.3% aquaculture Marine 877 2,382 3,359 9,377 26.1% 25.4% fisheries Marine 119 368 1,005 4,861 11.8% 7.6% aquaculture
Source：Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [2018 Statistics on Fishery and Aquaculture Production], [2018 Fishery Output]
6 Forestry The forest area of Hokkaido is about 5.5 million hectares which occupies 22% of the total forest area in Japan and plays an important role in preventing grobal warming. Current State of Hokkaido Forestry Whole Nationwide Statistic Articles Unit Hokkaido country ratio year(date) Forest area 10,000ha 554 2,505 22.1% 2017.3.31 1 hundred Forestry output value 468 4,629 10.1% In 2018 million yen Domestic timber supply amount 10,000m3 334 2,164 15.4% In 2018 Larch 10,000m3 154 225 68.3% Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries[2013 Income of forestry statistics report] Forestry Agency[Forest resources research] Manufacture Manufacture of food sector accounts for significant share of all sectors in Hokkaido, while manufacture of machinery sector is comparably small.
Composition ratio on Value of Shipments of manufactured goods（FY2017) 40.0% 35.0% Whole Country Hokkaido 30.0% 25.0% 20.0% 15.0% 10.0% 5.0% 0.0%
Source： Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry [2018 Industrial statistics survey] Food Export The value of Hokkaido food exports in 2018 increased highly in the last decade, while in 2019 it decreased by 1 billion yen from 2017 and 11 billion yen from 2018 to 66.4 billion yen.
（billion yen） 77.3 77.4 80 70.2 66.3 4.6 67.4 66.4 3.8 11.5 57.6 2.5 7.5 60 2.5 4.2 10.1 3.5 8.6 2.12.3 3.7 4 35.9 40 1.7 1.8 61.3 68.9 62.4 53.1 58.6 53.6 53.8 20 32.4
0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Other processed foods Agricultural and livestock products, processed agricultural and livestock products Fisheries and processed marine products Source: Hokkaido [Hokkaido Food Export Expansion Strategy
The Number of Inbound Tourists to Japan and Hokkaido
（The number of Inbound tourists to Hokkaido：1,000 people） （The number of Inbound tourists to Japan：1,000 people） 31,882 34,000 3,400 31,192 China 32,000 3,200 Taiwan 28,691 2,980 3,005 30,000 3,000 South Korea Hongkong 28,000 2,800 Other Asia 2,640 26,000 2,600 North America 24,040 Australia 24,000 2,400 446 Russia 2,230 433 22,000 2,200 Others 19,737 350 Inbound tourists to Japan 195 20,000 2,000 1,903 194 195 18,000 1,800 337 678 16,000 1,600 13,413 253 169 626 600 14,000 1,400 162 10,364 1,372 1,200 389 12,000 213 262 1,000 8,611 8,358 1,015 604 550 10,000 113 583 800 6,219 141 534 8,000 788 756 179 532 600 68 103 6,000 69 94 561 72 137 400 156 435 9 119 454 4,000 97 386 606 720 733 200 190 265 488 538 2,000 169 243 0 149 100 118 108 0 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 （年） Source：Hokkaido Government [http://www.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp/] Japan National Tourism Organization [http://www.jnto.go.jp/]
The number of rent-a-car rented by foreigners （units） 120,000 103,050 100,000 90,908 81,663 80,000 58,082 60,000 38,481 40,000 21,835 16,458 20,000 9,367
0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 （年） January-March April-June July-September October-December Source：Hokkaido Rent-A-Car Association 8 Inbound tourists to Hokkaido are more likely to visit Central Hokkaido Area than Japanese tourists. About 72% of Inbound tourists to Hokkaido visit Central Hokkaido Area.
Total number of Japanese guests by Total number of Foreign guests by Subprefecture in 2018 Subprefecture in 2018
Nemuro 237 0.8% Tokachi 174 2.1% Kushiro 184 … Nemuro 11 0.1% Sorachi 491 1.7% Kushiro 1,607 5.5% Okhotsk 132 1.6% Sorachi 53 0.6%
Tokachi 1,947 6.7% Souya 27 0.3%
Rumoi 1.8 0.02% Okhotsk Kushiro・Nemuro Kushiro・Nemuro 1,683 5.8% 1,844 6.3% Kamikawa 1,003 12.2% North 195 2.4% Hokkaido Souya 660 2.3% Ishikari Hiyama 0.5 0.01% 1,032 Rumoi 163 10,363 12.6% Ishikari North 0.6% Central 35.7% Oshima 3,705 Hokkaido 8.2 million guests 29.1million guests Hokkaido 741 9.0% 45.2% Kamikawa 3,654 15,783 2,830 9.7% 12.6% South Hokkaido 54.3% 742 9.1% Central Hokkaido South Hidaka 3.7 0.05% 5,920 Hiyama Hokkaido 72.2% 112 4,148 Iburi 0.4% 14.3% Shiribeshi 1,019 Oshima 2,570 12.4% Shiribeshi Iburi 4,037 13.9% 8.8% 1,139 2,138 13.9% 7.4% Hidaka 220 0.8%
Source：Hokkaido Government [http://www.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp/] Note : In this graph, the number shows 1,000 guests, and % shows ratio of whole guests.
Hokkaido is a popular destination for Asian people. The number of inbound tourists to Hokkaido is increasing and the expenditure per capita is the highest in Japan.
Ranking of Desired Destinations in Japan Top 10 Japanese Prefectures by Expenditure per for Asian People capita in 2017
Whole Asia China Taiwan Hong Kong Korea Thailand Indonesia Malaysia Singapore H北ok海kai道do 13.4 No.1 Tokyo Mt.Fuji Hokkaido Hokkaido Sapporo Mt.Fuji Tokyo Mt.Fuji Mt.Fuji To東ky京o都 9.1 No.2 Mt.Fuji Tokyo Kyoto Osaka Tokyo Tokyo Mt.Fuji Hokkaido Hokkaido G群un馬ma県 7.5 No.3 Hokkaido Hokkaido Osaka Tokyo Hokkaido Hokkaido Osaka Tokyo Tokyo Sa埼ita玉m県a 7.4 No.5:Hokkaido Ib茨ar城aki県 7.1 Source：Development Bank of Japan Saga [https://www.dbj.jp/upload/investigate/docs/15c5b111dfc6c52305 佐賀県 6.9 88c62bdfa63f37_1.pdf] M宮iya崎za県ki 5.3 Ka香ga川w県a 5.0 Eh愛im媛e 県 4.9 To徳ku島sh県ima 4.8 （10,000 yen per people） 0 5 10 15
Source: Japan Tourism Agency [http://www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/siryou/toukei/irikomi.html]
9 Energy Hokkaido has abundant renewable energy resources, including solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and snow-and-ice resources, whose utilization is needed to accelerate.
Endowment distribution of onshore wind Endowment distribution of offshore wind
Installed capacity (GW) Installed capacity (GW) 700 8.5m/s or more 500 About ３1％ of the total 8.5m/s or more 8.0～8.5m/s 600 About 23% of the total 8.0～8.5m/s 7.5～8.0m/s 7.5～8.0m/s 400 ～ 7.0～7.5m/s 500 7.0 7.5m/s ～ 6.5～7.0m/s 6.5 7.0m/s ～ 300 6.0～6.5m/s 400 6.0 6.5m/s 5.5～6.0m/s 5.5～6.0m/s 200 300 200 100 100 0 0
Source：Ministry of the Environment [Study on Basic Zoning Information Concerning Renewable Energies (FY 2015)]
Cold, snowy climate and scattered population society makes CO₂ emissions per capita in Hokkaido larger than that of national average.
Carbon dioxide emissions (FY2016) Item Hokkaido Whole Country
Carbon dioxide emissions 70.17 million ton - CO2 1,308.00 million ton - CO２ per capita 13.1 ton - CO2／person 10.3 ton - CO2／person
Source：Hokkaido Government [http://www.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp/ks/tot/ops/ht/jyoukyou.htm]
Owing to cold, snowy climate, residents of Hokkaido consume many kerosene to make their house warm.
Petroleum product demand composition ratio unit:% 4.2 Hokkaido 21.7 18.7 13.6 18.5 8.9 14.2
3.0 5.3 Whole country 8.6 30.2 26.2 20.1 6.6
Kerosene Volatile oil Naphtha Jet fuel oil Light oil A heavy oil C heavy oil Source : Hokkaido Government[Hokkaido Economic Handbook 2019]
10 Natural Hokkaido is abound with an irreplaceable natural environment, including the Shiretoko World Natural Heritage Site, National Parks, and wetlands under the Environment Ramsar Convention.
Distribution of Natural Parks in Hokkaido
Kutcharoko North Okhotsk ☆ Etorofu island Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu ☆
Sarobetsugenya
Matsuyama Piyashiri Shumarinai ○ Shiretoko Abashiri Kunashiri Island Shokanbetsu-Teuri-Yagishiri Teshiodake Onnebetsudake Ikushinakaigan □ ☆ ○ Shikotan Island Tofutsuko Sharidake Tokachigawagenryuubu Uryunuma shitsugen Notsuke Peninsula Notsuke Bay ☆ ☆ Akan Notsuke Furen Niseko-Shakotan-Otarukaigan Miyajimanuma □ ☆ ☆ Kushiroshitsugen ☆ Furenko Shunkunitai Daisetsuzan Akanko ○ ○ ☆ ☆ Yururitou Nopporo Shinrin Kōen ☆ ○ Ochiishimisaki Kushiroshitsugen Kiritappushitsugen Furano Ashibetsu Oboro Akkeshiko Bekkanbeushishitsugen Kariba-Motta Akkeshi Shikotsu-Toya ☆ △ ○ Obirayama Shizukari Rebunge Utonaiko National Parks（6 places） Quasi-National Parks（5 places） Onuma Prefectural Natural Parks（12 places） ☆ □ （ ） Hiyama Onuma Wilderness Areas 2 areas △ National Nature Conservation Areas（1 area） Esan Hidakasanmyaku-Erimo Daisengendake ○ Prefectural Nature Conservation Areas（7 areas） ○ ☆ Ramsar Sites（13 places） The Shiretoko World Natural Heritage Site
Matsumae Yagoshi
Source: Hokkaido Government
Summary table of area figures for Natural Parks
Number of park Area of the park Area per person Classification Whole Whole country Hokkaido Whole country Hokkaido country Hokkaido （Number of places） （Number of places） （ha） （ha） （㎡/person） （㎡/person） National Parks 34 6 2,194,552 509,240 175.9 960.0 Quasi-National Parks 56 5 1,409,727 212,359 113.0 400.3 Prefectural National Parks 311 12 1,974,248 146,873 158.2 276.9 Total 401 23 5,578,527 868,472 447.1 1,637.3
Source: Ministry of the Environment web site [http://www.env.go.jp/park/doc/data/] Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications[http://www.soumu.go.jp/menu_news/s-news/01gyosei02_03000062.html]
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