Japan

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Facts

Population: 127,433,494 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 13.8% (male 9,024,344/female 8,553,700) 15-64 years: 65.2% (male 41,841,760/female 41,253,968) 65 years and over: 21% (male 11,312,492/female 15,447,230) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: -0.088% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 8.1 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 8.98 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.055 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.014 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.732 male(s)/female total population: 0.953 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 2.8 deaths/1,000 live births male: 3 deaths/1,000 live births female: 2.59 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 82.02 years male: 78.67 years female: 85.56 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.23 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 12,000 (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: 500 (2003 est.).

Nationality: noun: Japanese (singular and plural) adjective: Japanese.

Ethnic groups: Japanese 98.5%, Koreans 0.5%, Chinese 0.4%, other 0.7% note: up to 230,000 Brazilians of Japanese origin migrated to Japan in the 1990s to work in industries; some have returned to Brazil (2004).

Religions: observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%).

Languages: Japanese.

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2002).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $4.218 trillion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 2.2% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $33,100 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.6% industry: 25.3% services: 73.1% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 66.44 million (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 4.6% industry: 27.8% services: 67.7% (2004).

Population below poverty line: NA%.

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.8% highest 10%: 21.7% (1993).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.3% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 4.1% (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $1.411 trillion expenditures: $1.639 trillion; including capital expenditures (public works only) of about $71 billion (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs; fish.

Industries: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, processed foods.

Industrial production growth rate: 3.3% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 996 billion kWh (2005).

Electricity - consumption: 946.3 billion kWh (2005).

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2005).

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2005).

Exports: $590.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical machinery, chemicals.

Exports - partners: US 22.9%, China 13.4%, South Korea 7.8%, Taiwan 7.3%, Hong Kong 6.1% (2005).

Imports: $524.1 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, raw materials.

Imports - partners: China 21%, US 12.7%, Saudi Arabia 5.5%, UAE 4.9%, Australia 4.7%, South Korea 4.7%, Indonesia 4% (2005).

Debt - external: $1.547 trillion (30 June 2006).

Economic aid - donor: ODA, $8.9 billion (2004).

Currency (code): yen (JPY).

Exchange rates: yen per US dollar - 116.18 (2006), 110.22 (2005), 108.19 (2004), 115.93 (2003), 125.39 (2002).

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March.