Key Facts
- ≈ 126 Million people live in Japan
- The national language is Japanese
- The capital is Tokyo
- It is made up of about 6,853 islands
- It has been a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy science 1947
- The Emperor of Japan is Naruhito
- The Prime Minister of Japan is Shinzō Abe
Japan's Economy
|
Japan |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
|
Export |
671 |
689 |
695 |
|
Import |
589 |
575 |
633 |
|
Balance |
82 |
114 |
62 |
- Inflation rate 0,98%
- Japan has a trade surplus
- Japans three main economic sectors are agriculture with 1.2% of the GDP, manufacturing with 25.7% of the GDP and services with 73.1% of the GDP
- The economic sector services includes finance, retail, tourism, and transportation
- Every child is educated for at least 9 years, most continue throw a three-year senior high school
- 16 Nobel Prize laureates come from the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University
- Japan’s economic freedom score is 72.1, making its economy the 30th freest in the 2019 Index
- Japan has a healthcare system provided by national and local governments, since 1973 all elderly persons have been covered by government-sponsored insurance