The number of people dying alone is steadily rising, especially among men in their 50s and 60s.

According to data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare on Thursday, solitary deaths rose seven-point-two percent from 2023 to three-thousand-924 last year.

Seven-point-two out of every 100-thousand people were reported as solitary deaths in 2023, and the figure stood at seven-point-seven the following year. One-point-04 of every 100 deaths were solitary ones in 2023, as were one-point-09 last year.
 
Men accounted for 81-point-seven percent of solitary deaths, those in their 60s made up 32-point-four percent and 30-point-five percent were in their 50s.

Thirty-nine-point-one percent had received basic living wages in the year before their deaths.

The ministry attributed the rise to an increase in single-person households—which made up 35-point-five percent of households in 2023 and 36-point-one percent in 2024—as well as social isolation and the post-pandemic shift in the labor force structure.