Japan
Japan in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Japan recorded GDP per capita: 35,951 (2025), ranking 48 of 212 worldwide; Population: 123.37 million (2025), ranking 12 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 84.0 (2024), ranking 10 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 3.17% (2025), ranking 93 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, Internet users shows the largest increase (+421287%) and Population growth the largest decrease (-155%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits above the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 13 of 19 comparable series are higher and 5 are lower.
Its population of 123.37 million (2025) makes it one of the larger populations in this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 4,435,162,999,976.94 | 2025 | +9060.2% |
| GDP per capita | 35,951.04 | 2025 | +6821.4% |
| GDP growth | 1.19% | 2025 | -90.1% |
| Population | 123,366,734 | 2025 | +32.3% |
| Population growth | -0.49% | 2025 | -154.9% |
| Urban population | 92.3% | 2025 | +45.9% |
| Inflation | 3.17% | 2025 | -11.2% |
| Life expectancy | 84.04 | 2024 | +24.1% |
| Infant mortality | 1.8 | 2024 | -94.1% |
| CO2 per capita | 7.84 | 2024 | -4.5% |
| GDP (PPP) | 6,837,216,297,272.17 | 2025 | +172.4% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 55,421.88 | 2025 | +172.6% |
| Labor participation | 63.45% | 2025 | +0.1% |
| Unemployment | 2.45% | 2025 | +19.0% |
| Internet users | 85.54% | 2024 | +421286.9% |
| Electricity access | 100% | 2024 | 0.0% |
| Education spending | 3.34% | 2021 | -6.8% |
| Forest area | 68.4% | 2023 | -0.1% |
| Health spending | 10.74% | 2023 | +52.7% |