Japan
Japan in numbers
38 measures of Japan from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.41% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$59.5B in 2025
- Military spending per person$504 in 2025
- Military share of state spending3.8% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel261,000 people in 2020
- National power2.47% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.38% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports1.72 billion TIV in 2025
- Arms exports28 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Japan with…
- Japan vs India
- Japan vs China
- Japan vs United States
- Japan vs Indonesia
- Japan vs Pakistan
- Japan vs Nigeria
- Japan vs Brazil
- Japan vs Bangladesh
- Japan vs Russia
- Japan vs Ethiopia
- Japan vs Mexico
- Japan vs Egypt
- Japan vs Philippines
- Japan vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Japan vs Vietnam
- Japan vs Iran
- Japan vs Türkiye
- Japan vs Germany
- Japan vs Thailand
- Japan vs Tanzania
- Japan vs United Kingdom
- Japan vs France
- Japan vs South Africa
- Japan vs Italy
- Japan vs Kenya
- Japan vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Japan vs Colombia
- Japan vs South Korea
- Japan vs Sudan
- Japan vs Spain
- Japan vs Argentina
- Japan vs Canada
- Japan vs Saudi Arabia
- Japan vs Poland
- Japan vs Malaysia
- Japan vs Australia
- Japan vs North Korea
- Japan vs Netherlands
- Japan vs Cambodia
- Japan vs Belgium
- Japan vs United Arab Emirates
- Japan vs Papua New Guinea
- Japan vs Sweden
- Japan vs Israel
- Japan vs Austria
- Japan vs Switzerland
- Japan vs Singapore
- Japan vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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