diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/MeasureFormat.java b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/MeasureFormat.java
index cb08f625465..9b64ad3314e 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/MeasureFormat.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/MeasureFormat.java
@@ -777,9 +777,7 @@ public class MeasureFormat extends UFormat {
                     // Skip the unit display name for now.
                 } else if (key.contentEquals("per")) {
                     // For example, "{0}/h".
-                    // TODO: Set minPlaceholders=1
-                    // after http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/9129 is fixed.
-                    setFormatterIfAbsent(MeasureFormatData.PER_UNIT_INDEX, value, 0);
+                    setFormatterIfAbsent(MeasureFormatData.PER_UNIT_INDEX, value, 1);
                 } else {
                     // The key must be one of the plural form strings. For example:
                     // one{"{0} hr"}
diff --git a/icu4j/main/shared/data/icudata.jar b/icu4j/main/shared/data/icudata.jar
index 1516555960c..48cb0865675 100755
--- a/icu4j/main/shared/data/icudata.jar
+++ b/icu4j/main/shared/data/icudata.jar
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-oid sha256:66385b6822df39beb828c9b70233a65f3420d77cf74982800ee41cd53c309f3e
-size 11622349
+oid sha256:626ed2484fc25dccca603b448372f479724a094a6006aa89be6764cc1af30fc4
+size 11622359