Country comparison India : Japan

General information

	India	Japan
Region:	South Asia	East Asia
Area:	3,287,259 km²	377,970 km²
Official language:	Hindi	Japanese
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Independent since:	1947 AD	660 BC
Capital:	New Delhi	Tokyo

Population

	India	Japan
Population:	1,380,004,000	125,836,000
Inhabitants/km²:	419.8	332.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 82 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 71 years	Ø 88 years
Average age:	Ø 28.7 years	Ø 48.6 years
Birthrate:	17.64 ‰	7.00 ‰
Deathrate:	7.27 ‰	11.10 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.04 ‰	0.75 ‰

Quality of life

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

	India	Japan
Political stability:	45	87
Civil rights:	46	86
Health:	35	92
Climate:	67	58
Cost of Living:	44	26
Popularity:	58	36

Economy

	India	Japan
Currency:	Indian Rupee (1 INR = 100 Paise)	Japanese Yen (1 JPY =100 Sen)
Unemployment rate:	6.0 %	2.8 %
Inflation rate:	6.62 %	-0.23 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	28.67 %	103.69 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.70 %	46.70 %
Average income:	1,920 US$	40,360 US$
Corruption index:	40 (bad)	73 (good)

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,660,245 M US$	1.93 M US$	5,057,759 M US$	40.19 M US$
Gross national product:	2,651,666 M US$	1.92 M US$	5,079,042 M US$	40.36 M US$
Exported goods:	484,691 M US$	0.35 M US$	793,323 M US$	6.30 M US$
Imported goods:	493,033 M US$	0.36 M US$	799,523 M US$	6.35 M US$

Infrastructure

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,699,024 km	3.41 km	1,218,772 km	9.69 km
Railways:	68,155 km	0.05 km	27,311 km	0.22 km
Waterways:	14,500 km	0.01 km	1,770 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	1,801	0.001	5,201	0.041
Airports:	346	0.000	175	0.001

Energy balance

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1,137.00 bn kWh	823,910.43 kWh	943.70 bn kWh	7.50 m kWh
Energy production:	1,386.00 bn kWh	1.00 m kWh	989.30 bn kWh	7.86 m kWh
Energy export:	5.15 bn kWh	3,731.87 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	5.62 bn kWh	4,070.28 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.43 bn t	1,764.14 t	1.11 bn t	8,790.41 t

Telecommunication

	India	Japan
International dialing:	+91	+81
Internet domain:	.in	.jp

	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.	JPN total	JPN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	20,052,162	15	62,252,837	495
Mobile cellulars:	1,153,709,832	836	192,284,308	1528
Internet server:	6,746,000	5	64,453,000	512
Internet users:	565,801,798	410	116,688,243	927
Broadband Internet:	22,950,000	17	44,000,791	350

Healthcare system

	India	Japan
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.53	12.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	2.41
Diabetes:	10.4 %	5.6 %
Tuberculosis:	1.9 %	0.1 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	66.0 %
Smokers:	28.1 %	20.5 %

Climate

Detailed info for: India and Japan

	India	Japan
Daytime temperatures:	30.4 °C	20.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	19.9 °C	12.1 °C
Water temperature:	27.5 °C	19.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	68 %
Rain days:	7.4	9.7
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	5.4

Native languages

	India	Japan
Japanese:	n/a	99.1 %
Hindi:	41.0 %	n/a
Bengali:	8.1 %	n/a
Telugu:	7.2 %	n/a
Marathi:	7.0 %	n/a
Tamil:	5.9 %	n/a
Urdu:	5.0 %	n/a
Gujarati:	4.5 %	n/a
Kannada:	3.7 %	n/a
Oriya:	3.2 %	n/a
Malayalam:	3.2 %	n/a
Punjabi:	2.8 %	n/a
Assamese:	1.3 %	n/a
Maithili:	1.2 %	n/a
Korean:	n/a	0.5 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.2 %
English:	n/a	0.1 %
Filipino:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	5.9 %	0.0 %

Religions

	India	Japan
Hinduism:	79.8 %	n/a
Shinto:	n/a	79.2 %
Buddhism:	0.7 %	66.8 %
Islam:	13.0 %	n/a
Christianity:	2.3 %	1.5 %
Sikhism:	1.7 %	n/a
Jainism:	0.4 %	n/a
Bahaism:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	1.9 %	-47.5 %