Country comparison: Canada / Japan

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Canada and Japan. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Canada	Japan
Region:	North America	East Asia
Area:	9,984,670 km²	377,970 km²
Official language:	English, French	Japanese
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic (under constitutional monarchy)	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1867 AD	660 BC
Capital:	Ottawa	Tokyo

Population

Details for Canada and Japan

	Canada	Japan
Population:	38,246,000	125,682,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.8	332.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 88 years
Average age:	Ø 41.8 years	Ø 48.6 years
Birth rate:	9.60 ‰	6.60 ‰
Death rate:	7.80 ‰	11.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	5.37 ‰	0.74 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Canada	Japan
Political stability:	85	86
Civil rights:	93	88
Health:	79	92
Climate:	33	54
Cost of Living:	35	29
Popularity:	45	41

Economy

Details for Canada and Japan

	Canada	Japan
Currency:	Canadian dollar (1 CAD = 100 Cents)	Japanese yen (1 JPY =100 Sen)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	2.6 %
Inflation rate:	6.80 %	2.50 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	102.51 %	89.82 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	24.50 %	46.70 %
Average income:	48,310 US$	42,650 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	112.85 %	262.49 %
Government debt (% of GDP):	55.55 %	221.32 %
Corruption index:	26 (good)	27 (good)

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,988,336 M US$	51.99 M US$	4,940,878 M US$	39.31 M US$
Gross national product:	1,847,687 M US$	48.31 M US$	5,360,684 M US$	42.65 M US$
Exported goods:	721,859 M US$	18.87 M US$	919,158 M US$	7.31 M US$
Imported goods:	717,826 M US$	18.77 M US$	941,671 M US$	7.49 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Canada and Japan

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,042,300 km	27.25 km	1,218,772 km	9.70 km
Railways:	77,932 km	2.04 km	27,311 km	0.22 km
Waterways:	636 km	0.02 km	1,770 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	679	0.0178	5,201	0.0414
Passenger airports:	234	0.0061	80	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for Canada and Japan

	CAN: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.342 tn kWh	35.10 m kWh	3.054 tn kWh	24.30 m kWh
Energy consumption:	539.70 bn kWh	14.11 m kWh	903.70 bn kWh	7.19 m kWh
Energy production:	630.03 bn kWh	16.47 m kWh	947.79 bn kWh	7.54 m kWh
Energy export:	67.20 bn kWh	1.76 m kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	9.80 bn kWh	256,235.22 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	580.21 m t	15,170.51 t	1.08 bn t	8,605.65 t

Telecommunication

Details for Canada and Japan

	Canada	Japan
International dialing:	+1	+81
Internet domain:	.ca	.jp

	CAN total	CAN per 1000 inh.	JPN total	JPN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	12,928,000	338	61,583,600	490
Mobile cellulars:	32,723,000	856	200,478,808	1595
Internet server:	8,743,000	229	64,453,000	513
Internet users:	35,301,158	923	113,389,252	902
Broadband Internet:	16,051,704	420	45,168,114	359

Healthcare system

Details for Canada and Japan

	Canada	Japan
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.52	12.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.61	2.41
Diabetes:	7.6 %	5.6 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.11 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	79.0 %	65.0 %
Smokers:	13.0 %	20.1 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Canada and Japan

	Canada	Japan
Daytime temperatures:	7.5 °C	19.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	-2.4 °C	11.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	72 %	69 %
Rain days:	8.1	10.0
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	5.3

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Japan
Canada

Native languages

	Canada	Japan
Japanese:	n/a	99.1 %
English:	58.7 %	0.1 %
French:	22.0 %	n/a
Punjabi:	1.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	1.3 %	n/a
Italian:	1.3 %	n/a
German:	1.3 %	n/a
Tagalog:	1.2 %	0.1 %
Chinese:	1.2 %	0.2 %
Arabic:	1.1 %	n/a
Polish:	0.7 %	n/a
Portuguese:	0.7 %	n/a
Ukrainian:	0.6 %	n/a
Korean:	n/a	0.5 %
Dutch:	0.5 %	n/a
Russian:	0.4 %	n/a
Eskimo:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	7.5 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Canada	Japan
Shinto:	n/a	79.2 %
Christianity:	67.2 %	1.5 %
Buddhism:	1.1 %	66.8 %
Nondenominational:	23.9 %	n/a
Islam:	3.2 %	n/a
Hinduism:	1.5 %	n/a
Sikhism:	1.4 %	n/a
Jewry:	1.1 %	n/a
other:	0.6 %	-47.5 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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