Country comparison Japan : United States

General information

	Japan	United States
Region:	East Asia	North America
Area:	377,970 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Japanese	English
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	660 BC	1776 AD
Capital:	Tokyo	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Japan	United States
Population:	125,836,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	332.9	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 82 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 88 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 48.6 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	7.00 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	11.10 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.75 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Japan	United States
Political stability:	87	63
Civil rights:	86	81
Health:	92	71
Climate:	58	66
Cost of Living:	26	38
Popularity:	38	67

Economy

	Japan	United States
Currency:	Japanese Yen (1 JPY = 100 Sen)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.8 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	-0.23 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	103.69 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	46.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	40,360 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	73 (good)	67 (moderate)

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	5,057,759 M US$	40.19 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	5,079,042 M US$	40.36 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	793,323 M US$	6.30 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	799,523 M US$	6.35 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,218,772 km	9.69 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	27,311 km	0.22 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	1,770 km	0.01 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	5,201	0.041	3,627	0.011
Airports:	175	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	943.70 bn kWh	7.50 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	989.30 bn kWh	7.86 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.11 bn t	8,790.41 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Japan	United States
International dialing:	+81	+1
Internet domain:	.jp	.us

	JPN total	JPN per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	62,252,837	495	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	192,284,308	1528	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	64,453,000	512	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	116,688,243	927	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	44,000,791	350	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Japan	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	12.98	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.41	2.59
Diabetes:	5.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	66.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	20.5 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Japan and United States

	Japan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	20.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.1 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	19.4 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	67 %
Rain days:	9.7	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	7.2

Native languages

	Japan	United States
Japanese:	99.1 %	0.2 %
English:	0.1 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	0.2 %	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Korean:	0.5 %	0.3 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Filipino:	0.1 %	n/a
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Japan	United States
Shinto:	79.2 %	n/a
Christianity:	1.5 %	78.5 %
Buddhism:	66.8 %	0.7 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
other:	-47.5 %	15.3 %