For capital, the average amount of daily transactions in foreign exchange markets worldwide was 1.5 trillion dollars as of 1998 – which is as far back as we can go in making such a comparison – and grew to 4 trillion dollars, corresponding to almost 20 times world GDP per day, in 2010 (Chart 2).
For people, tourists traveling abroad have increased substantially from 530 million in 1995 to 940 million in 2011. The number of first-generation immigrants has also increased from 170 million in 1995 to 210 million in 2010 (Chart 2). Rapid population aging Second, Japan’s population has continued to age rapidly (Chart 4).