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Table 2 Mean annual population (1000) for the Japanese prefectures 1995 to 2018, dead and missing after earthquake and tsunami 2011, earth-quake related deaths, evacuated persons within or to the prefectures (sources: National Police Agency March 8, 2019; Reconstruction Agency September 30, 2018), mean annual live births, mean annual LBW and LBWp, jump OR in LBWp from 2012 onward, and 95%-CI for jump OR in LBWp from 2012 to 2018; see https://stats-japan.com/t/kiji/10343

From: Spatiotemporal association of low birth weight with Cs-137 deposition at the prefecture level in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accidents: an analytical-ecologic epidemiological study

Prefecture

ISO code

mean annual population (1000) 1995–2018

pyhsician density per 1000 population

dead and missing after earthquake and tsunami

earth-quake related deaths

evacuated persons within or to prefecture

mean annual live births 1995–2018

mean annual LBW 1995–2018

mean annual LBWp 1995–2018

jump OR in LBWp from 2012 onward

95%-CI for jump OR in LBWp

Hokkaido

1

5557.8

2.5

1

0

3003

42,115.3

3880.6

0.092

1.046

(1.015, 1.079)

Aomori

2

1403.0

2.1

4

0

1410

10,842.5

924.6

0.085

0.953

(0.897, 1.014)

Iwate

3

1355.5

2.1

5788

467

42,716

10,560.7

915.3

0.087

1.047

(0.985, 1.113)

Miyagi

4

2345.8

2.4

10,761

928

127,825

19,827.2

1724.0

0.087

1.059

(1.013, 1.106)

Akita

5

1118.3

2.4

0

0

1473

7571.4

672.0

0.089

1.014

(0.944, 1.088)

Yamagata

6

1193.1

2.3

2

2

13,538

9398.9

758.0

0.081

1.094

(1.024, 1.170)

Fukushima

7

2041.9

2.1

1810

2250

98,595

17,277.0

1507.3

0.087

1.078

(1.027, 1.131)

Ibaraki

8

2958.6

1.9

25

42

6077

24,918.3

2234.0

0.090

1.049

(1.009, 1.092)

Tochigi

9

1996.8

2.3

4

0

3157

17,052.7

1659.5

0.097

1.083

(1.035, 1.133)

Gunma

10

2005.1

2.4

1

0

1974

16,868.0

1511.8

0.090

1.003

(0.956, 1.051)

Saitama

11

7080.9

1.7

0

1

4778

60,963.0

5470.0

0.090

1.024

(0.998, 1.050)

Chiba

12

6073.4

2.0

23

4

3608

51,154.6

4418.6

0.086

1.025

(0.996, 1.054)

Tokyo

13

12,716.8

3.2

7

1

9505

103,513.0

9304.9

0.090

1.011

(0.991, 1.031)

Kanagawa

14

8799.5

2.1

4

3

2888

77,614.8

7073.0

0.091

1.017

(0.994, 1.040)

Niigata

15

2402.7

2.1

0

0

6990

19,002.3

1610.8

0.085

1.072

(1.024, 1.122)

Toyama

16

1099.7

2.6

0

0

377

8806.5

744.5

0.085

0.976

(0.912, 1.044)

Ishikawa

17

1170.4

3.0

0

0

499

10,197.8

860.6

0.084

1.122

(1.054, 1.195)

Fukui

18

811.7

2.6

0

0

443

7179.9

580.9

0.081

1.030

(0.955, 1.110)

Yamanashi

19

867.6

2.4

0

0

837

7191.0

709.4

0.099

0.965

(0.900, 1.035)

Nagano

20

2166.2

2.4

0

3

1363

18,379.8

1631.5

0.089

0.928

(0.886, 0.971)

Gifu

21

2081.7

2.2

0

0

412

17,751.2

1562.4

0.088

0.984

(0.939, 1.031)

Shizuoka

22

3752.0

2.1

0

0

1399

32,300.2

3140.3

0.097

1.016

(0.983, 1.051)

Aichi

23

7255.8

2.2

0

0

1260

69,496.4

6419.0

0.092

1.015

(0.992, 1.040)

Mie

24

1847.2

2.3

0

0

413

15,698.8

1361.5

0.087

1.064

(1.012, 1.118)

Shiga

25

1376.1

2.3

0

0

385

13,247.5

1150.5

0.087

1.006

(0.954, 1.061)

Kyoto

26

2629.8

3.4

0

0

1056

21,623.1

1961.3

0.091

0.968

(0.929, 1.009)

Osaka

27

8822.0

2.8

0

0

1335

78,362.3

7110.8

0.091

0.979

(0.957, 1.002)

Hyogo

28

5535.6

2.5

0

0

1033

48,658.1

4396.1

0.090

0.982

(0.955, 1.010)

Nara

29

1408.2

2.5

0

0

166

11,420.2

992.0

0.087

0.973

(0.918, 1.031)

Wakayama

30

1022.1

3.0

0

0

130

8150.3

711.9

0.087

0.973

(0.908, 1.042)

Tottori

31

596.6

3.2

0

0

194

5064.3

457.7

0.090

1.136

(1.043, 1.237)

Shimane

32

732.1

2.9

0

0

142

5926.8

558.5

0.094

1.013

(0.938, 1.095)

Okayama

33

1943.4

3.1

0

0

771

17,223.8

1492.0

0.087

1.091

(1.040, 1.144)

Hiroshima

34

2864.9

2.7

0

0

539

25,553.9

2323.4

0.091

1.021

(0.983, 1.060)

Yamaguchi

35

1475.8

2.6

0

0

206

11,667.3

1082.1

0.093

1.013

(0.958, 1.071)

Tokushima

36

796.6

3.3

0

0

100

6266.2

523.8

0.084

1.018

(0.941, 1.102)

Kagawa

37

1003.7

2.9

0

0

111

8648.0

745.5

0.086

1.026

(0.959, 1.097)

Ehime

38

1448.4

2.7

0

0

232

11,803.3

1014.8

0.086

1.007

(0.951, 1.066)

Kochi

39

777.2

3.2

0

0

142

5879.8

574.7

0.098

0.977

(0.905, 1.055)

Fukuoka

40

5047.1

3.1

0

0

744

45,845.4

4393.5

0.096

1.015

(0.987, 1.044)

Saga

41

859.1

2.9

0

0

304

7816.5

702.0

0.090

1.046

(0.977, 1.121)

Nagasaki

42

1457.0

3.1

0

0

174

12,580.7

1092.7

0.087

1.012

(0.957, 1.069)

Kumamoto

43

1827.9

3.0

0

0

312

16,323.8

1457.8

0.089

0.993

(0.947, 1.042)

Oita

44

1200.7

2.8

0

0

350

10,077.7

893.2

0.089

1.038

(0.977, 1.103)

Miyazaki

45

1143.0

2.5

0

0

260

10,252.3

983.2

0.096

1.003

(0.946, 1.062)

Kagoshima

46

1727.6

2.7

0

0

281

15,164.8

1481.5

0.098

1.039

(0.992, 1.090)

Okinawa

47

1366.8

2.5

0

0

970

16,669.2

1803.2

0.108

1.093

(1.047, 1.142)