Japan 
Facts
Population:
126,771,662 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
14.64% (male 9,510,296; female 9,043,074)
15-64 years:
67.83% (male 43,202,513; female 42,790,187)
65 years and over:
17.53% (male 9,351,340; female 12,874,252) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.17% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
10.04 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
8.34 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.73 male(s)/female
total population:
0.96 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
3.88 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
80.8 years
male:
77.62 years
female:
84.15 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.41 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.02% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
10,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
150 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Japanese (singular and plural)
adjective:
Japanese
Ethnic groups:
Japanese 99.4%, Korean 0.6% (1999)
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% (1970 est.)
male:
NA%
female:
NA%
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $3.15 trillion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
1.3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $24,900 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
2%
industry:
35%
services:
63% (1999 est.)
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):
-0.7% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
67.7 million (December 2000)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 65%, industry 30%, agriculture 5%
Unemployment rate:
4.7% (2000)
Budget:
revenues:
$441 billion
expenditures:
$718 billion, including capital expenditures (public works only) of about $84 billion (FY01/02 est.)
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:
5.3% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.018 trillion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
58.91%
hydro:
8.35%
nuclear:
30.31%
other:
2.43% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
947.038 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs; fish
Exports:
$450 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:
motor vehicles, semiconductors, office machinery, chemicals
Exports - partners:
US 30%, Taiwan 7%, South Korea 6.4%, China 6.2%, Hong Kong 5.6% (2000 est.)
Imports:
$355 billion (c.i.f., 2000)
Imports - commodities:
fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, office machinery
Imports - partners:
US 19%, China 14.5%, South Korea 5.4%, Taiwan 4.8%, Indonesia 4.3%, Australia 3.9% (2000 est.)
Debt - external:
$NA
Economic aid - donor:
ODA, $9.1 billion (1999)
Currency:
yen (JPY)
Currency code:
JPY
Exchange rates:
yen per US dollar - 117.10 (January 2001), 107.77 (2000), 113.91 (1999), 130.91 (1998), 120.99 (1997), 108.78 (1996)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Weekly magazine), Tokyo
http://www3.asahi.com/opendoors/span/aera/
(Left wing, Communist Party), Tokyo
http://www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/
(Center-Left), Tokyo
http://www.asahi.com/english/
(Weekly magazine of the Asahi Shimbun), Tokyo
http://www.asahi.com/english/
(Public affairs monthly), Tokyo
http://bunshun.topica.ne.jp/
(Independent), Hiroshima
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/
(Regional), Nagano City
http://www.chunichi.co.jp/
Japan in the News
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For all its economic clout, the European Union still has much work to do in political and security terms in Beijing and most other capitals in East Asia.
The Secretary of State traveled to four leading Asian countries in her first foreign diplomatic foray.
Comment and analysis from Australia, United Kingdom, Iceland, Japan, France, China, Egypt, and Russia
In a highly charged yet carefully orchestrated media campaign, Koizumi captured the imagination of the voting public by handpicking celebrity candidates to stand against the ex-L.D.P. rebels who voted with the Opposition against the government’s postal reforms.
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