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IndicatorJPNJapanEast Asia & Pacific
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #15
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile75.3rank #24
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.73rank #17
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.76rank #11
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.85rank #37
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile91.9rank #2
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #15
Military spending% GDP1.4%rank #86
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.53rank #30
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile85.3rank #25
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile75.8rank #23
Rule of Law0-100 percentile83rank #15
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.96rank #17
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.82rank #18
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.73rank #23
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile76.4rank #30
Women in parliament% seats15.7%rank #132
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.84rank #39
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment2.8%rank #144
Agriculture value added% GDP0.96%rank #166
Annual working hours per workerhours1,653.9rank #96
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker341,313.8rank #39
Current account balance% GDP4.9%rank #14
Employment-to-population ratio%62.2%rank #54
FDI net inflows% GDP1%rank #66
GDPcurrent US$4.44Trank #4
GDP growth%1.2%rank #153
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$35,951rank #33
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $48,283.4rank #35
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $47,774.6rank #33
Government expenditure% GDP20.1%rank #83
Gross capital formation% GDP27.7%rank #39
Gross savings% GDP32.1%rank #26
High-technology exports% manuf. exports17.6%rank #37
Human capital indexindex3.6rank #17
Industry value added% GDP26.8%rank #68
Inflation%3.2%rank #85
Labour force participation rate%63.7%rank #77
Personal remittances received% GDP0.11%rank #86
R&D expenditure% GDP3.4%rank #6
Researchers in R&Dper million5,608.6rank #16
Tax revenue% GDP11.1%rank #65
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.66rank #58
Trade openness% GDP44.9%rank #139
Unemployment% labor force2.5%rank #24
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%2.4%rank #23
Vulnerable employment% employment7.5%rank #23
Youth unemployment% ages 15-243.9%rank #19
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-243.8%rank #15
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop99.2%rank #47
Basic sanitation access% pop99.9%rank #5
Child mortalityper 1000.24rank #5
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,670.1rank #136
DTP3 immunization coverage%99%rank #1
Health spending% GDP10.7%rank #20
Infant mortalityper 1k births1.8rank #3
Life expectancyyears84rank #10
Maternal mortalityper 100k3rank #3
Measles immunization% children95%rank #5
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%95%rank #5
Physiciansper 1k2.6rank #58
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m311.5rank #57
Road traffic deathsper 100k3.6rank #10
Smoking prevalence% adults17.5%rank #56
Suicide mortality rateper 100k17.4rank #162
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k9.8rank #44
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births2.4rank #9
Education
Education spending% GDP3.3%rank #117
Expected years of schoolingyears15.5rank #55
Mean years of schoolingyears12.7rank #28
Primary enrollment% gross101.1%rank #75
Secondary enrollment% gross101.5%rank #49
Tertiary enrollment% gross64.5%rank #49
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0005.7rank #194
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.2rank #186
Median age of populationyears49rank #2
Net migration rateper 1,0001.4rank #71
Populationpeople123.37Mrank #12
Population growth%-0.49%rank #197
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years88.4rank #4
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands105,123.2rank #17
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age70.1rank #45
Urban population%92.3%rank #15
Climate
CO₂ emissionst961.87Mrank #5
CO₂ per capitat7.8rank #34
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation32.1%rank #44
Electricity from hydro% generation7.2%rank #54
Electricity from solar% generation9.8%rank #33
Electricity from wind% generation1.3%rank #64
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita7,530.1rank #12
Forest area% land68.4%rank #19
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita8.3rank #144
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh477.4rank #58
Renewable electricity%23.6%rank #61
Renewable energy share%8.8%rank #134
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e1,035.8rank #183
Society
Asylum seekerspeople91rank #27
Extreme poverty% pop1.2%rank #11
Female labor participation%55.9%rank #75
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10038.6rank #21
Gender Development Indexratio0.97rank #50
Gender Inequality Index0-10.06rank #20
Gini indexindex32.3rank #24
Homicide rateper 100k0.23rank #3
Human Development Index0-10.93rank #17
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.85rank #16
Internet users% pop85.5%rank #75
Life satisfaction0-106.1rank #59
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.79rank #12
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #103
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #63
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #69
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.02rank #54
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people42,450rank #66
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people56rank #18
Youth NEET rate%3.1%rank #1
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-105.8rank #51
Human hazard & exposure0-101rank #11
INFORM risk score0-102.1rank #10
Lack of coping capacity0-101rank #3
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-100.6rank #3
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-101.3rank #2
Natural hazard & exposure0-108.3rank #62
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.3rank #4
Vulnerability0-101.5rank #7
Vulnerable groups0-102.6rank #21
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