Editing Nara Prefecture (section)

==Demographics==
[[File:Nara prefecture population pyramid in 2020.svg|thumb|Nara prefecture population pyramid in 2020]]
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|align=center colspan=4| '''Population by districts<ref name="popdense">[http://www.eco.pref.nara.jp/hakusho/h17/pdf/H17hakusho.pdf Whitepaper on Ecology (Japanese)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616075326/http://www.eco.pref.nara.jp/hakusho/h17/pdf/H17hakusho.pdf |date=June 16, 2007 }}. Prefecture of Nara. Retrieved April 10, 2007.</ref>'''
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|District			||Area Size<br />(km<sup>2</sup>)	||Population	||Density<br />per km<sup>2</sup>
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|Yamato flat inland plain	||837.27	||1,282		||1,531
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|(Share in %)			||22.7%		||89.7%		||
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|Yamato highland		||506.89	||56		||110
|-
|(Share in %)			||13.7%		||3.9%		||
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|Gojō, Yoshino			||2,346.84	||92		||39
|-
|(Share in %)			||63.6%		||6.4%		||
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|Total Prefecture		||3,691.09	||1,430		||387
|-
|(Share in %)			||100.0%	||100.0%	||
|-
|}

According to the 2005 Census of Japan, Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,421,310, which is a decrease of 1.5%, since the year 2000.<ref name="censusnara">{{cite web|title=Population Census 2005|language=ja|url=http://www.pref.nara.jp/pro/toukei/chousa_shoukai/h17kokusei/index.html |access-date = 2007-04-10 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080415201002/http://www.pref.nara.jp/pro/toukei/chousa_shoukai/h17kokusei/index.html |archive-date = April 15, 2008}} (Including official amendment of March 5, 2007)</ref>

The decline continued in 2006, with another decrease of 4,987 people compared to 2005. This includes a natural decrease from previous year of 288 people (11,404 births minus 11,692 deaths) and a decrease due to net domestic migration of 4,627 people outbound from the prefecture, and a decrease of 72 registered foreigners. Net domestic migration has turned into a continuous outbound trend since 1998. The largest destinations of migration in 2005 were the prefectures of Kyoto, Tokyo, and Hyōgo, with respectively a net of 1,130,982 and 451 people moving over. The largest inbound migration was from [[Niigata Prefecture]], contributing to a net increase of 39 people. 13.7% of its population were reported as under 15, 65.9% between 15 and 64, and 20.4% were 65 or older. Females made up approximately 52.5% of the population.<ref name="popnara">{{cite web|title=Population Statistics of Nara Prefecture 2006|language=ja|url=http://www.pref.nara.jp/pro/toukei/group/jinkou/jinkou.htm |access-date= 2007-04-10 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118064416/http://www.pref.nara.jp/pro/toukei/group/jinkou/jinkou.htm |archive-date = January 18, 2008}}</ref>

As of 2004, the average density of the prefecture is 387 people per km<sup>2</sup>. By districts,<ref>Defined by Nara Prefecture for the convenience of statistical analysis. See [http://www.pref.nara.jp/pro-e/toukei/zu1.html "Population of each district"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212192911/http://www.pref.nara.jp/pro-e/toukei/zu1.html |date=February 12, 2007 }} for 2005 figures.</ref> the Yamato flat inland plain holds as much as about 90% of total population within the approximately 23% size of area in the north-west, including the Nara
Basin, representing a density of 1,531 people per km<sup>2</sup>. To the contrast, the combined district [[Gojō, Nara|Gojō]] and [[Yoshino District, Nara|Yoshino District]] occupies almost 64% of the land, while only 6% of people lives there, resulting in a density of 39 people km<sup>2</sup>.

Nara prefecture had the highest rate in Japan of people commuting outbound for work, at 30.9% in 2000. A similar tendency is seen in prefectures such as [[Saitama Prefecture|Saitama]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], and [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], all three of them having over 20% of people commuting for other prefectures.<ref name="100indices"/>