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 v.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Tokyo	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Japan	United States
Population:	126,265,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	334.1	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 81 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 87 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 45.9 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	7.40 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	11.00 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.75 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Japan	United States
Political stability:	86	72
Civil rights:	86	83
Health:	92	74
Climate:	54	64
Cost of Living:	25	34
Popularity:	44	86

Economy

	Japan	United States
Currency:	Japanese Yen (1 JPY = 100 Sen)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.0 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	0.48 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	117.80 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	46.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	41,710 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	74 (good)	67 (moderate)

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	5,081,770 M US$	40.25 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	5,266,926 M US$	41.71 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	904,883 M US$	7.17 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	900,305 M US$	7.13 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,218,772 km	9.65 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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:	5,017	0.040	3,673	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	7.47 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	989.30 bn kWh	7.84 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.14 bn t	8,996.05 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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:	63,442,800	502	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	177,067,000	1402	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	64,453,000	510	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	106,805,106	846	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Japan	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	13.40	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.41	2.59
Diabetes:	5.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.02 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	66.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	21.9 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Japan and United States

	Japan	United States
Daytime temperatures:	19.9 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	12.0 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	19.2 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.3	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 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	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
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 %