Country comparison: India / Japan

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for India and Japan. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.

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

Details for India and Japan

	India	Japan
Population:	1,393,409,000	125,682,000
Inhabitants/km²:	423.9	332.5
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:	17.44 ‰	6.80 ‰
Deathrate:	7.30 ‰	11.10 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.16 ‰	0.74 ‰

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:	52	87
Civil rights:	45	88
Health:	35	92
Climate:	62	54
Cost of Living:	45	27
Popularity:	49	41

Economy

Details for India and Japan

	India	Japan
Currency:	Indian Rupee (1 INR = 100 Paise)	Japanese Yen (1 JPY =100 Sen)
Unemployment rate:	6.0 %	2.8 %
Inflation rate:	5.13 %	-0.23 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	28.80 %	101.95 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.70 %	46.70 %
Average income:	2,170 US$	42,620 US$
Corruption index:	60 (bad)	27 (good)

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,173,398 M US$	2.28 M US$	4,937,422 M US$	39.29 M US$
Gross national product:	3,027,515 M US$	2.17 M US$	5,356,987 M US$	42.62 M US$
Exported goods:	643,129 M US$	0.46 M US$	919,158 M US$	7.31 M US$
Imported goods:	717,831 M US$	0.52 M US$	941,671 M US$	7.49 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for India and Japan

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,699,024 km	3.37 km	1,218,772 km	9.70 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	0.0013	5,201	0.0414
Passenger airports:	82	0.0001	80	0.0006

Energy balance

Details for India and Japan

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1,137.00 bn kWh	815,984.38 kWh	943.70 bn kWh	7.51 m kWh
Energy production:	1,386.00 bn kWh	994,682.80 kWh	989.30 bn kWh	7.87 m kWh
Energy export:	5.15 bn kWh	3,695.97 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	5.62 bn kWh	4,031.12 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.46 bn t	1,762.80 t	1.08 bn t	8,605.64 t

Telecommunication

Details for India and Japan

	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	14	61,978,594	493
Mobile cellulars:	1,153,709,832	828	195,054,893	1552
Internet server:	6,746,000	5	64,453,000	513
Internet users:	599,165,884	430	113,389,252	902
Broadband Internet:	22,950,000	16	44,000,791	350

Healthcare system

Details for India and Japan

	India	Japan
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.53	12.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	2.41
Diabetes:	10.4 %	5.6 %
Tuberculosis:	1.88 ‰	0.12 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	66.0 %
Smokers:	27.2 %	20.1 %

Climate

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

	India	Japan
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	19.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.1 °C	11.3 °C
Water temperature:	27.3 °C	18.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	69 %
Rain days:	7.9	10.0
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	5.3

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 %

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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