So 500 die alone every year, let's give this number some perspective. Tokyo's population is 9.273 million, the highest of any city in the world, of which some

So 500 die alone every year, let's give this number some perspective. Tokyo's population is 9.273 million, the highest of any city in the world, of which some 23% or roughly 2.1 million are aged 65 or over, and 500 of these are dying alone every year? So 0.005% of the general population or 0.023% of the elderly.