Sources: Japan
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated
Source registry for Japan dental market data: publishers, cadence and licence status.
13 registered sources for Japan. Licence status is recorded per publisher; figures are cited with a link, not copied wholesale.
Registry
MEXT survey of dental faculties: enrolment fill rate and competition (FY2023-25 average)
- Publisher
- MEXT (Higher Education Bureau, Medical Education Division)
- URL
- https://www.mext.go.jp/content/20251201-mxt_igaku-100001063_07.pdf
- Update cadence
- Annual/ad hoc
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Free reuse incl. commercial with source credit (and a note if modified); third-party-owned content, logos/symbols excluded and must be cleared by the user; plain numeric data and simple tables are stated to be outside copyright.
- Notes
- School count is derived from faculty labels in a chart.
- Facts using this source
- jp.dental_schools_total.2025
Pass announcement, 118th National Dentist Licensing Examination
- Publisher
- MHLW
- URL
- https://www.mhlw.go.jp/general/sikaku/successlist/2025/siken02/about.html
- Update cadence
- Annual (March)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Reuse incl. commercial under PDL 1.0 (CC BY-compatible) with source credit required (and a note if modified); logos/symbols and items carrying another rights notice are excluded; I did not check each PDF for third-party notices.
- Notes
- Page is Shift-JIS encoded.
- Facts using this source
- jp.dental_graduates_annual.2025
Population Estimates (1 Oct 2024)
- Publisher
- Statistics Bureau of Japan
- URL
- https://www.stat.go.jp/data/jinsui/2024np/index.html
- Update cadence
- Annual (Oct 1 estimate, published April)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Free reuse incl. commercial with source credit (e.g. 出典：総務省統計局ホームページ + URL) and a note if modified; third-party content and logos excluded; plain numbers/simple tables are not copyright-protected. (Translated: anyone may reproduce, publicly transmit, adapt freely; commercial use allowed.)
- Phase
- 1
- Facts using this source
- jp.population.2024
Report on Public Health Administration and Services 2024 (employed health workers)
- Publisher
- MHLW
- URL
- https://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/hw/eisei/24/dl/gaikyo.pdf
- Update cadence
- Biennial (even years)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Reuse incl. commercial under PDL 1.0 (CC BY-compatible) with source credit required (and a note if modified); logos/symbols and items carrying another rights notice are excluded; I did not check each PDF for third-party notices.
- Phase
- 1
- Facts using this source
- jp.dental_hygienists_total.2024, jp.dental_hygienists_total.2022, jp.dental_technicians_total.2024, jp.dental_technicians_total.2022
Survey of Medical Institutions 2024 (Overview of results)
- Publisher
- MHLW
- URL
- https://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/hw/iryosd/24/dl/02sisetu06.pdf
- Update cadence
- Annual (reference date 1 October)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Reuse incl. commercial under PDL 1.0 (CC BY-compatible) with source credit required (and a note if modified); logos/symbols and items carrying another rights notice are excluded; I did not check each PDF for third-party notices.
- Phase
- 1
- Facts using this source
- jp.chairside_cadcam_installed_base.2025, jp.clear_aligner_cases_annual.2025, jp.dental_3d_printer_installed_base.2025, jp.dental_clinics_total.2024, jp.dental_clinics_total.2023, jp.dso_clinic_share_pct.2024, jp.hospitals_with_dental_dept.2024, jp.implant_procedures_annual.2025
Survey of Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists 2024 (Overview)
- Publisher
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW)
- URL
- https://www.mhlw.go.jp/toukei/saikin/hw/ishi/24/dl/R06_1gaikyo.pdf
- Update cadence
- Biennial (even years); 2024 edition published 2025-12-23
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Reuse incl. commercial under PDL 1.0 (CC BY-compatible) with source credit required (and a note if modified); logos/symbols and items carrying another rights notice are excluded; I did not check each PDF for third-party notices.
- Phase
- 1
- Facts using this source
- jp.dentists_per_100k.2024, jp.dentists_practising.2024, jp.dentists_practising.2024, jp.dentists_practising.2022, jp.dentists_practising.2022, jp.dentists_total.2024, jp.dentists_total.2022
World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL)
- Publisher
- World Bank (UN Population Division, national statistics offices and others)
- URL
- https://api.worldbank.org/v2/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?format=json
- Update cadence
- Annual (last updated 2026-10-08 when fetched)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Free reuse incl. commercial under CC BY 4.0 with attribution in the form 'The World Bank: Dataset name: Data source'; sub-licensees must carry the same attribution; applies unless indicated otherwise in the indicator metadata. Underlying sources (UN WPP, national offices, Eurostat) are listed in the indicator metadata; check for source-specific terms.
- Notes
- Cross-country per-capita denominator (DECISIONS L5). No series for Taiwan.
- Facts using this source
- ae.dentists_per_100k.2023-hl, au.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, jp.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, kr.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, my.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl [series break 2024], my.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl [series break 2024], nz.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, qa.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, sa.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl, sg.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, th.dentists_per_100k.2023-hl, vn.dentists_per_100k.2024-hl