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JPN JP ¥ Japanese yen (JPY)
Every statistic we track for Japan — 129 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$59,207
83.3 yrs
6.13
0.73
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.2 | #203/217 | 2024 |
| Median Age | 50.2 | #4/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 126.3 | #10/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 122.7 | #11/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 324.9 | #43/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 56 | #164/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 92.2% | #24/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #57/214 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 85.5% | #77/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 168.6 | #12/209 | 2022 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 5.5% | #190/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 6.3 | #82/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 0.2 | #193/199 | 2024 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 11.4% | #14/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 31.4% | #152/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 1.8 | #187/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 83.3 | #2/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 84.7 | #2/186 | 2020 |
| Suicide Rate | 14.7 | #28/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 18.5% | #91/167 | 2022 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 86 | #13/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 12.8 | #14/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 536 | #5/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 516 | #3/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 547 | #2/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 7.8 | #28/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 3,039 | #33/149 | 2023 |
| Renewable Electricity | 22.9% | #114/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
| Civil Liberties (V-Dem) | 0.9 | #20/179 | 2025 |
| Clean Elections (V-Dem) | 0.9 | #27/179 | 2025 |
| Control of Corruption (QoG) | 1.4 | #22/192 | 2024 |
| Corruption Perceptions Index | 71 | #20/179 | 2024 |
| Corruption Perceptions Index (QoG) | 71 | #19/177 | 2024 |
| Deliberative Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.7 | #18/179 | 2025 |
| Egalitarian Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.8 | #12/179 | 2025 |
| Electoral Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.8 | #24/179 | 2025 |
| Freedom House Status (QoG) | 1 | #148/193 | 2024 |
| Freedom in the World Score | 96 | #12/196 | 2024 |
| Freedom of Expression (V-Dem) | 0.8 | #43/179 | 2025 |
| Gender Equality (V-Dem) | 0.8 | #53/179 | 2025 |
| Government Effectiveness (QoG) | 2.1 | #2/192 | 2024 |
| Judicial Constraints on Executive (V-Dem) | 0.9 | #33/179 | 2025 |
| Liberal Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.7 | #24/179 | 2025 |
| Military Spending | 1.4% | #87/150 | 2025 |
| Participatory Democracy (V-Dem) | 0.5 | #32/179 | 2025 |
| Political Corruption (V-Dem) | 0.1 | #162/179 | 2025 |
| Press Freedom (RSF) (QoG) | 62.1 | #69/173 | 2024 |
| Rule of Law (V-Dem) | 1 | #20/179 | 2025 |
| Voice & Accountability (QoG) | 1.1 | #28/192 | 2024 |
📰 Media & news
| News Avoidance (Digital News Report) | 12% | #48/48 | 2026 |
| Paying for Online News (Digital News Report) | 9% | #35/42 | 2026 |
| Press Freedom Index | 62.9 | #61/177 | 2026 |
| Social Media as News Source (Digital News Report) | 25% | #48/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in News (Digital News Report) | 41% | #17/48 | 2026 |
| Trust in the News Media (ISSP) | 30.1% | #20/28 | 2020 |
🛡️ Safety
| Homicide Rate | 0.4 | #199/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 2.7 | #183/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 94.3% | #15/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 67.2% | #11/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 43.7 | #3/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 29.1% | #58/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 1.3% | #126/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 2.1 | #167/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 59.5 | #37/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 24.8 | #17/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 81.2% | #29/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.1 | #61/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.9 | #84/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.9 | #35/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0 | #146/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 1 | #4/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.2 | #30/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.4 | #53/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.9 | #23/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 6.3% | #118/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 61.7% | #132/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 34% | #142/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 46 | #31/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (ISSP) | 19.6% | #25/27 | 2020 |
| Long-term Orientation | 80 | #4/26 | 2010 |
| Masculinity | 95 | #2/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 54 | #41/65 | 2010 |
| Secular Values | 0.4 | #13/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.6 | #11/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 41.6% | #11/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 14.3% | #45/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 3.8 | #110/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 3.7 | #125/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.6 | #68/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 88.1% | #24/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 86.3% | #17/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.6 | #48/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 92 | #10/65 | 2010 |
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