Country comparison Japan : South Korea

General information

	Japan	South Korea
Region:	East Asia	East Asia
Area:	377,970 km²	100,339 km²
Official language:	Japanese	Korean
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Presidential republic
Independent since:	660 BC	1948 AD
Capital:	Tokyo	Seoul

Population

	Japan	South Korea
Population:	125,836,000	51,781,000
Inhabitants/km²:	332.9	516.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 82 years	Ø 81 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 88 years	Ø 87 years
Average age:	Ø 48.6 years	Ø 43.2 years
Birthrate:	7.00 ‰	5.90 ‰
Deathrate:	11.10 ‰	5.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.75 ‰	2.65 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Japan	South Korea
Political stability:	87	81
Civil rights:	86	75
Health:	92	92
Climate:	58	56
Cost of Living:	26	42
Popularity:	36	39

Economy

	Japan	South Korea
Currency:	Japanese Yen (1 JPY = 100 Sen)	Won (1 KRW =100 Chon)
Unemployment rate:	2.8 %	3.5 %
Inflation rate:	-0.23 %	2.50 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	103.69 %	84.63 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	46.70 %	33.20 %
Average income:	40,360 US$	32,930 US$
Corruption index:	73 (good)	62 (moderate)

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	5,057,759 M US$	40.19 M US$	1,637,896 M US$	31.63 M US$
Gross national product:	5,079,042 M US$	40.36 M US$	1,706,856 M US$	32.96 M US$
Exported goods:	793,323 M US$	6.30 M US$	771,202 M US$	14.89 M US$
Imported goods:	799,523 M US$	6.35 M US$	698,103 M US$	13.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,218,772 km	9.69 km	100,428 km	1.94 km
Railways:	27,311 km	0.22 km	4,111 km	0.08 km
Waterways:	1,770 km	0.01 km	1,600 km	0.03 km
Harbours:	5,201	0.041	1,904	0.037
Airports:	175	0.001	111	0.002

Energy balance

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	KOR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	943.70 bn kWh	7.50 m kWh	507.60 bn kWh	9.80 m kWh
Energy production:	989.30 bn kWh	7.86 m kWh	526.00 bn kWh	10.16 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.11 bn t	8,790.41 t	630.87 m t	12,183.53 t

Telecommunication

	Japan	South Korea
International dialing:	+81	+82
Internet domain:	.jp	.kr

	JPN total	JPN per 1000 inh.	KOR total	KOR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	62,252,837	495	23,858,239	461
Mobile cellulars:	192,284,308	1528	70,513,676	1362
Internet server:	64,453,000	512	315,697	6
Internet users:	116,688,243	927	49,970,879	965
Broadband Internet:	44,000,791	350	22,327,182	431

Healthcare system

	Japan	South Korea
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	12.98	12.43
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.41	2.37
Diabetes:	5.6 %	6.9 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.5 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	66.0 %	82.0 %
Smokers:	20.5 %	21.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Japan and South Korea

	Japan	South Korea
Daytime temperatures:	20.1 °C	18.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.1 °C	9.9 °C
Water temperature:	19.4 °C	12.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	69 %
Rain days:	9.7	6.8
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	6.1

Native languages

	Japan	South Korea
Korean:	0.5 %	99.9 %
Japanese:	99.1 %	n/a
Chinese:	0.2 %	0.1 %
English:	0.1 %	n/a
Filipino:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.0 %	0.0 %

Religions

	Japan	South Korea
Shinto:	79.2 %	n/a
Buddhism:	66.8 %	24.2 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	43.3 %
Christianity:	1.5 %	31.6 %
other:	-47.5 %	0.9 %