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

General information

 JapanUnited States
Region:East AsiaNorth America
Area:377,970 km²9,831,510 km²
National language:JapaneseEnglish
Government form:Parliamentary constitutional monarchyFederal presidential republic
Independent since:660 BC1776 AD
Capital:TokyoWashington, D.C.

Population

Details for Japan and the United States

 JapanUnited States
Population:125,682,000331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:332.533.8
Life expectancy males:Ø 82 yearsØ 75 years
Life expectancy females:Ø 88 yearsØ 80 years
Average age:Ø 48.6 yearsØ 38.5 years
Birth rate:6.80 ‰10.90 ‰
Death rate:11.10 ‰10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:0.74 ‰3.01 ‰

Quality of life

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

 JapanUnited States
Political stability:8667
Civil rights:8883
Health:9271
Climate:5466
Cost of Living:2934
Popularity:4171

Economy

Details for Japan and the United States

 JapanUnited States
Currency:Japanese yen
(1 JPY = 100 Sen)
US dollar
(1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:2.6 %3.6 %
Inflation rate:2.50 %8.00 %
Cost of Living:
(USA = 100%)
89.82 %100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:46.70 %36.60 %
Average income:42,650 US$70,930 US$
Corruption index:27 (good)31 (moderate)


 JPN:
total
per 1000
inh.
USA:
total
per 1000
inh.
Gross domestic product:4,940,878 M US$39.31 M US$23,315,081 M US$70.25 M US$
Gross national product:5,360,684 M US$42.65 M US$23,539,918 M US$70.93 M US$
Exported goods:919,158 M US$7.31 M US$2,556,638 M US$7.70 M US$
Imported goods:941,671 M US$7.49 M US$3,401,688 M US$10.25 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Japan and the United States

 JPN:
total
per 1000
inh.
USA:
total
per 1000
inh.
Roadways:1,218,772 km9.70 km6,586,610 km19.85 km
Railways:27,311 km0.22 km293,564 km0.88 km
Waterways:1,770 km0.01 km41,009 km0.12 km
Harbours:5,2010.04143,6270.0109
Passenger airports:800.00064360.0013

Energy balance

Details for Japan and the United States

 JPN:
total
per 1000
inh.
USA:
total
per 1000
inh.
Production capacity:3.054 tn kWh24.30 m kWh10.015 tn kWh30.18 m kWh
Energy consumption:903.70 bn kWh7.19 m kWh3.898 tn kWh11.74 m kWh
Energy production:947.79 bn kWh7.54 m kWh4.049 tn kWh12.20 m kWh
Energy export:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh14.13 bn kWh42,587.96 kWh
Energy imports:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh61.45 bn kWh185,146.19 kWh
CO2 emissions:1.08 bn t8,605.65 t4.82 bn t14,515.85 t

Telecommunication

Details for Japan and the United States

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

 JPN
total
JPN
per 1000
inh.
USA
total
USA
per 1000
inh.
Landlines:61,583,600490101,526,000306
Mobile cellulars:200,478,8081595351,477,0001059
Internet server:64,453,000513505,000,0001522
Internet users:113,389,252902301,691,414909
Broadband Internet:45,168,114359125,885,000379

Healthcare system

Details for Japan and the United States

 JapanUnited States
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:12.982.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:2.412.59
Diabetes:5.6 %10.8 %
HIV:0.01 %0.20 %
Tuberculosis:0.11 ‰0.03 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:65.0 %74.0 %
Smokers:20.1 %23.0 %



Climate

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

 JapanUnited States
Daytime temperatures:19.2 °C18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:11.5 °C7.3 °C
Water temperature:18.0 °C17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:69 %67 %
Rain days:10.07.1
Sunshine hours per day:5.37.2


Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Japan
United States

Native languages

 JapanUnited States
Japanese:99.1 %0.2 %
English:0.1 %82.1 %
Spanish:n/a10.7 %
Chinese:0.2 %0.9 %
French:n/a0.7 %
German:n/a0.6 %
Italian:n/a0.6 %
Korean:0.5 %0.3 %
Tagalog:0.1 %0.4 %
Polish:n/a0.3 %
Russian:n/a0.2 %
Vietnamese:n/a0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a0.2 %
Eskimo:n/a0.0 %
other:0.0 %2.6 %

Religions

 JapanUnited States
Shinto:79.2 %n/a
Christianity:1.5 %78.5 %
Buddhism:66.8 %0.7 %
Jewry:n/a1.8 %
Sikhism:n/a1.6 %
Islam:n/a1.1 %
Hinduism:n/a1.0 %
other:-47.5 %15.3 %


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.