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:	125,836,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	332.9	33.5
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:	7.00 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	11.10 ‰	8.70 ‰
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:	87	67
Civil rights:	87	81
Health:	92	74
Climate:	55	63
Cost of Living:	22	35
Popularity:	42	72

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:	-0.02 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	118.21 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	46.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	41,580 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	74 (good)	67 (moderate)

	JPN: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	5,064,873 M US$	40.25 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	5,250,687 M US$	41.73 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	793,323 M US$	6.30 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	799,523 M US$	6.35 M US$	2,808,955 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:	5,041	0.040	3,652	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:	62,743,196	499	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	186,514,109	1482	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	64,453,000	512	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	106,442,299	846	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	43,633,244	347	120,531,000	366

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:	0.01 %	0.20 %
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:	20.0 °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 %