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Japan

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Japan is a country. The capital city is Tokyo, located in the Eastern Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 364,500 km², a population of 124,516,650 people and uses the currency Japanese yen. The Prime Minister is Yoshihide Suga.

Key facts

currency: Japanese yen
capital city: Tokyo
region: Eastern Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 364,500 km²
population: 124,516,650 people
political leader: Yoshihide Suga (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 216.21 % of GDP
expense: 20.96 % of GDP
GDP: 4,204,494,802,431.55 current US$
inflation: 3.27 annual %
self-employed workers: 9.50 % of total employment
tax revenue: 11.38 % of GDP
unemployment: 2.60 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 7.88 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 261,000 people
democracy score: 7.99
democracy type: Flawed democracy
individuals using the Internet: 87.00 % of population
military expenditure: 1.20 % of GDP
net migration: 175,003 people
press freedom: 2.66
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 10.34 %
birth rate: 6.30 per 1,000 people
death rate: 12.90 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 4,347.00 current US$
health expenditure: 10.82 % of GDP
hospital beds: 12.72 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 84
suicide mortality rate: 15.30 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 46,590.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 3.09 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 944.76 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 33.15 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 39.59 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 8.23 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.91 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 7.52 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 7.76 % of total
net energy imports: 93.02 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.26 births per woman
forest area: 249,350 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 93.03 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 1,041.01 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 45.00
methane emissions: 57.64 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 15.81 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 63,745,563 people
male population: 60,771,087 people
renewable energy consumption: 8.80 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 316,736.20 km²
rural population: 9,907,790 people
urban land area: 53,452.06 km²
urban population: 114,608,860 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 11.57 % of total population

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