Editing Kyoto (section)

===Demographics===
{{Historical populations
| 1873 | 238,663
| 1889 | 279,165
| 1900 | 371,600
| 1910 | 470,033
| 1920 | 736,462
| 1925 | 860,878
| 1930 | 987,777
| 1935 | 1,117,439
| 1940 | 1,127,870
| 1945 | 1,041,700
| 1950 | 1,130,185
| 1955 | 1,229,808
| 1960 | 1,295,012
| 1965 | 1,374,159
| 1970 | 1,427,376
| 1975 | 1,468,833
| 1980 | 1,473,065
| 1985 | 1,486,402
| 1990 | 1,461,103
| 1995 | 1,470,902
| 2000 | 1,467,785
| 2005 | 1,474,811
| 2010 | 1,474,015
| 2015 | 1,475,183
| 2020 | 1,463,723
|source = <ref name = "historical population" />}}
Kyoto was the largest city in Japan until the late 16th century, when its population was surpassed by those of [[Osaka]] and [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Le Japon à l'exposition universelle de 1878. Géographie et histoire du Japon |author=Japanese Imperial Commission |date=1878 |language=fr |page=16}}</ref> Before World War II, Kyoto vied with [[Kobe]] and [[Nagoya]] to rank as the fourth- or fifth-largest city in Japan. Having avoided most wartime destruction, it was again the third-largest city in 1947. By 1960 it had fallen to fifth again, and by 1990 it had fallen to seventh. {{As of|January 2022}}, it was the ninth-largest city in Japan by population and had led the country in population decrease for two consecutive years.<ref>{{cite news|date=August 28, 2022|script-title=ja:京都市の人口減、2年連続全国最多 「9位転落」が迫る背景は？|url=https://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/articles/-/866385|work=[[Kyoto Shimbun]]|access-date=September 2, 2022|archive-date=September 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220901231909/https://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/articles/-/866385|url-status=live}}</ref> However, the population of the city rises during standard working hours, and Kyoto ranks seventh in Japan in terms of [[daytime population]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stat.go.jp/data/kokusei/2020/kekka/pdf/outline_04.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.stat.go.jp/data/kokusei/2020/kekka/pdf/outline_04.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|script-title=ja:令和2年国勢調査 従業地・通学地による人口・就業状態等集計結果|publisher=[[Japan Statistics Bureau]]|access-date=August 23, 2022}}</ref>

Approximately 55% of the total population of [[Kyoto Prefecture]] is concentrated in the city of Kyoto, which is the highest ratio among the prefectures of Japan.