Country comparison: Japan / Philippines

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

General information

	Japan	Philippines
Region:	East Asia	Southeast Asia
Area:	377,970 km²	300,000 km²
National language:	Japanese	Tagalog
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Presidential republic
Independent since:	660 BC	1946 AD
Capital:	Tokyo	Manila

Population

Details for Japan and the Philippines

	Japan	Philippines
Population:	125,682,000	113,880,000
Inhabitants/km²:	332.5	379.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 82 years	Ø 70 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 88 years	Ø 74 years
Average age:	Ø 48.6 years	Ø 24.1 years
Birth rate:	6.80 ‰	22.04 ‰
Death rate:	11.10 ‰	5.57 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.74 ‰	0.13 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Japan	Philippines
Political stability:	87	52
Civil rights:	88	38
Health:	92	46
Climate:	54	49
Cost of Living:	27	47
Popularity:	41	35

Economy

Details for Japan and the Philippines

	Japan	Philippines
Currency:	Japanese yen (1 JPY = 100 Sen)	Philippine peso (1 PHP =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	2.8 %	2.4 %
Inflation rate:	-0.23 %	3.93 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	101.95 %	40.86 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	46.70 %	43.10 %
Average income:	42,650 US$	3,550 US$
Corruption index:	27 (good)	67 (bad)

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,940,878 M US$	39.31 M US$	394,086 M US$	3.46 M US$
Gross national product:	5,360,684 M US$	42.65 M US$	404,238 M US$	3.55 M US$
Exported goods:	919,158 M US$	7.31 M US$	87,790 M US$	0.77 M US$
Imported goods:	941,671 M US$	7.49 M US$	126,508 M US$	1.11 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Japan and the Philippines

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,218,772 km	9.70 km	216,387 km	1.90 km
Railways:	27,311 km	0.22 km	77 km	0.00 km
Waterways:	1,770 km	0.01 km	3,219 km	0.03 km
Harbours:	5,201	0.0414	1,805	0.0158
Passenger airports:	80	0.0006	46	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for Japan and the Philippines

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	943.70 bn kWh	7.51 m kWh	78.30 bn kWh	687,563.88 kWh
Energy production:	989.30 bn kWh	7.87 m kWh	86.59 bn kWh	760,359.59 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.08 bn t	8,605.64 t	145.42 m t	1,276.95 t

Telecommunication

Details for Japan and the Philippines

	Japan	Philippines
International dialing:	+81	+63
Internet domain:	.jp	.ph

	JPN total	JPN per 1000 inh.	PHL total	PHL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	61,978,594	493	4,731,196	42
Mobile cellulars:	195,054,893	1552	149,579,406	1313
Internet server:	64,453,000	513	425,812	4
Internet users:	113,389,252	902	55,301,361	486
Broadband Internet:	44,965,598	358	9,658,020	85

Healthcare system

Details for Japan and the Philippines

	Japan	Philippines
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	12.98	0.99
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.41	1.28
Diabetes:	5.6 %	7.1 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.36 %
Tuberculosis:	0.11 ‰	6.50 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	65.0 %	76.0 %
Smokers:	20.1 %	22.9 %

Climate

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

	Japan	Philippines
Daytime temperatures:	19.2 °C	31.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.5 °C	23.9 °C
Water temperature:	18.0 °C	27.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	69 %	81 %
Rain days:	10.0	11.3
Sunshine hours per day:	5.3	6.3

Native languages

	Japan	Philippines
Japanese:	99.1 %	n/a
Tagalog:	n/a	29.3 %
Cebuano:	n/a	23.3 %
Ilocano:	n/a	9.3 %
Hiligaynon:	n/a	9.1 %
Bicol:	n/a	5.7 %
Waray-waray:	n/a	3.8 %
Pampango:	n/a	3.0 %
English:	0.1 %	2.2 %
Kapampangan:	n/a	2.2 %
Chinese:	0.2 %	1.9 %
Pangasinan:	n/a	1.8 %
Maguindanao:	n/a	1.4 %
Maranao:	n/a	1.3 %
Kinaray-a:	n/a	1.0 %
Tausug:	n/a	0.9 %
Malay:	n/a	0.7 %
Chavacano:	n/a	0.6 %
Surigaonon:	n/a	0.6 %
Korean:	0.5 %	n/a
Filipino:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.0 %	1.9 %

Religions

	Japan	Philippines
Christianity:	1.5 %	92.5 %
Shinto:	79.2 %	n/a
Buddhism:	66.8 %	n/a
Islam:	n/a	5.0 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	-47.5 %	2.4 %

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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