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India vs Japan

124 shared metrics.

IndiaLeads in 56

vs124 shared

JapanLeads in 68

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India

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of India.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

India overtook China in 2023 to become the world's most populous country.

UN DESA 2023

Japan

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Identity

Name origin: the English word for Japan comes from the Chinese name for the country, Cipangu.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Japan's long slowdown after its asset bubble is famous as the Lost Decade era.

Britannica

Analysis

Japan leads in 68 of 124 shared metrics, while India leads in 56.

India's GDP Growth Rate is 61.3x that of Japan (6.5% vs 0.10%).

India's Irrigated Land is 47.0x that of Japan (754.6K km² vs 15.7K km²).

India's Capital Elevation is 35.0x that of Japan (216 m vs 6.0 m).

India's Political Corruption Index is 12.7x that of Japan (0.68 vs 0.05).

India's Infant Mortality is 12.6x that of Japan (24.5 per 1k births vs 1.8 per 1k births).

Key Comparisons

GDP Growth RateIndia leads

India

6.5%

Japan

0.10%

Irrigated LandIndia leads

India

754.6K km²

Japan

15.7K km²

Capital ElevationIndia leads

India

216 m

Japan

6.0 m

Political Corruption IndexIndia leads

India

0.68

Japan

0.05

Infant MortalityIndia leads

India

24.5 per 1k births

Japan

1.8 per 1k births

Homicide RateIndia leads

India

729.6K km²

Japan

249.3K km²

193% higher

Comparison of India and Japan across 124 metrics
				Winner
GDP Growth Rate	6.5%	0.10%	6127% higher	India
Irrigated Land	754.6K km²	15.7K km²	4697% higher	India
Capital Elevation	216 m	6.0 m	3500% higher	India
Political Corruption Index	0.68	0.05	1268% higher	India
Infant Mortality	24.5 per 1k births	1.8 per 1k births	1261% higher	India
Homicide Rate	2.8 per 100k	0.23 per 100k	1128% higher	India
Armed Forces Personnel	3.07M	261.0K	1075% higher	India
Child Mortality	27.7 per 1k births	2.4 per 1k births	1054% higher	India
Population	1.42B	123.20M	1052% higher	India
Land Area	2.97M km²	364.6K km²	716% higher	India
Water Withdrawal	647.5 B m³	79.7 B m³	712% higher	India
Teen Birth Rate	14.06 per 1k	1.7 per 1k	709% higher	India
Road Traffic Death Rate	14.6 per 100k	2.7 per 100k	441% higher	India
Agricultural Land (%)	60.06%	12.64%	375% higher	India
Youth Unemployment Rate	16.02% of youth labor force	3.9% of youth labor force	311% higher	India
Wind Electricity Share	5.0%	1.3%	300% higher	India
Renewable Energy (%)	34.9%	8.8%	297% higher	India
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	48.39 µg/m³	12.84 µg/m³	277% higher	India
Total CO2 Emissions	3.2K Mt CO2e	972.27 Mt CO2e	224% higher	India
Forest Area	729.6K km²	249.3K km²	193% higher	India
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	25 days/yr	10 days/yr	150% higher	India
Water Stress (%)	44.78%	18.53%	142% higher	India
Railway Length	65.6K km	27.3K km	140% higher	India
Birth Rate	15.91 per 1k	6.8 per 1k	133% higher	India
Highest Elevation	8.6K m	3.8K m	127% higher	India
Coal Electricity Share	70.82%	32.05%	121% higher	India
Youth Population (%)	24.62%	11.44%	115% higher	India
Spirits Consumption	2.3 L/person/yr	1.1 L/person/yr	109% higher	India
Electricity Generation	2.1K TWh	1.0K TWh	101% higher	India
Scientific Publications	207.4K	103.7K	100% higher	India
Official Languages Count	2.0	1.0	100% higher	India
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.22 per 1M people	17.38 per 1M people	99% lower	Japan
Health Spending Per Capita	$79.52	$3,889.36	98% lower	Japan
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.00 per 1M people	0.24 per 1M people	98% lower	Japan
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.03 per 100k people	0.85 per 100k people	96% lower	Japan
Researchers	259.26 per 1M	5.6K per 1M	95% lower	Japan
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	10 gold medals	211 gold medals	95% lower	Japan
All-Time Olympic Medals	41 medals	642 medals	94% lower	Japan
Broadband Access (%)	2.7 per 100 people	39 per 100 people	93% lower	Japan
GNI Per Capita	$2,650	$36,000	93% lower	Japan
Credit Card Ownership	4.6% of adults	69.66% of adults	93% lower	Japan
Beer Consumption	0.13 L/person/yr	1.1 L/person/yr	88% lower	Japan
Meat Consumption per Person	6.1 kg/person/yr	49.33 kg/person/yr	88% lower	Japan
Domestic Patents	26.3K	222.5K	88% lower	Japan
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.6 per 1k	12.7 per 1k	87% lower	Japan
Nurses & Midwives	1.7 per 1k	12.45 per 1k	86% lower	Japan
Inflation Rate	5.0%	2.7%	85% higher	India
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	1.2K kWh/person	7.7K kWh/person	85% lower	Japan
Seafood Consumption per Person	7.9 kg/person/yr	46.65 kg/person/yr	83% lower	Japan
R&D Spending (% GDP)	0.65% of GDP	3.4% of GDP	81% lower	Japan
Government Debt (% GDP)	46.5% of GDP	215.9% of GDP	78% lower	Japan
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$11,159.99	$51,685.04	78% lower	Japan
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	24.96 per 100k	109.61 per 100k	77% lower	Japan
Coastline Length	7.0K km	29.8K km	76% lower	Japan
Elderly Population (%)	7.1%	29.78%	76% lower	Japan
Energy Use (Per Capita)	754.18 kg oil eq/person	3.0K kg oil eq/person	75% lower	Japan
Vehicles per 1,000 People	158.15 per 1k people	642.15 per 1k people	75% lower	Japan
Protected Land (%)	7.7%	29.5%	74% lower	Japan
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.72 per 1k	2.6 per 1k	73% lower	Japan
CO2 Per Capita	2.2 t/person/yr	7.8 t/person/yr	72% lower	Japan
Health Spending (% GDP)	3.3% of GDP	11.42% of GDP	71% lower	Japan
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	44 sites	26 sites	69% higher	India
Military Spending	2.3% of GDP	1.4% of GDP	66% higher	India
Liberal Democracy Index	0.26	0.73	65% lower	Japan
Merchant Fleet Size	1.9K	5.2K	64% lower	Japan
Forest Coverage (%)	24.54%	68.4%	64% lower	Japan
Unemployment Rate	4.2%	2.6%	64% higher	India
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	0.69% of GDP	0.43% of GDP	63% higher	India
Urban Population (%)	35.38%	92.19%	62% lower	Japan
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	79 per 100 people	178.43 per 100 people	56% lower	Japan
Electoral Democracy Index	0.38	0.82	54% lower	Japan
Air Passengers	180.42M	120.31M	50% higher	India
Digital Payments Used	48.46% of adults	95.79% of adults	49% lower	Japan
Foreign Patents	35.3K	66.7K	47% lower	Japan
University Enrollment Rate	34.42%	64.89%	47% lower	Japan
Obesity Rate	7.2%	4.9%	46% higher	India
Freedom of Expression Index	0.46	0.85	46% lower	Japan
Corruption Perceptions Index	39 pts	71 pts	45% lower	Japan
Nuclear Electricity Share	3.1%	5.5%	44% lower	Japan
Tobacco Use Prevalence	24.4% of adults	17.1% of adults	43% higher	India
Median Age	28.1 years	49.0 years	43% lower	Japan
Population Density	483.68 /km²	341.54 /km²	42% higher	India
Fertility Rate	2.0 children/woman	1.4 children/woman	42% higher	India
Electricity Carbon Intensity	670.13 gCO2/kWh	477.26 gCO2/kWh	40% higher	India
Electric Generating Capacity	499.14M kW	361.62M kW	38% higher	India
Internet Users (%)	56%	87%	36% lower	Japan
Alcohol Consumption	4.1 L/adult/yr	6.4 L/adult/yr	36% lower	Japan
Dependency Ratio	46.56% of working-age pop.	70.12% of working-age pop.	34% lower	Japan
Suicide Rate	12.56 per 100k	17.43 per 100k	28% lower	Japan
Death Rate	8.7 per 1k	12.04 per 1k	28% lower	Japan
Renewable Energy (%)	9.1%	12.7%	28% lower	Japan
Smoking Rate	24.3%	19.2%	27% higher	India
Human Development Index	0.69	0.93	26% lower	Japan
Life Evaluation Score	4.5 pts	6.1 pts	26% lower	Japan
Average Weekly Work Hours	45.45 hrs/week	36.6 hrs/week	24% higher	India
Safe Drinking Water (%)	76.44%	98.73%	23% lower	Japan
Education Spending (% GDP)	4.1% of GDP	3.3% of GDP	23% higher	India
Women's Political Empowerment	0.66	0.84	22% lower	Japan
Inequality (Gini)	25.5	32.3	21% lower	Japan
Food Waste per Person	97.34 kg/person/yr	80.57 kg/person/yr	21% higher	India
Tourism Revenue	$13,413,000,000	$11,395,000,000	18% higher	India
Women in Senior Management	11.92% of managers	14.49% of managers	18% lower	Japan
Milk Consumption per Person	84.5 kg/person/yr	72.06 kg/person/yr	17% higher	India
Big Mac Price	$2.51	$3.03	17% lower	Japan
Sanitation Access (%)	83.38%	99.94%	17% lower	Japan
Life Expectancy	72.0 years	84.0 years	14% lower	Japan
Airports	318	279	14% higher	India
Women in Parliament (%)	13.65%	15.7%	13% lower	Japan
Shipping Traffic	19.72M	22.52M	12% lower	Japan
Skilled Birth Attendance (%)	89.4%	99.8%	10% lower	Japan
Insufficient Physical Activity	49.42% of adults	44.75% of adults	10% higher	India
Exports (% GDP)	21.16% of GDP	22.77% of GDP	7% lower	Japan
High-Tech Exports (%)	18.57%	17.55%	6% higher	India
Solar Electricity Share	9.4%	9.8%	4% lower	Japan
GDP (Nominal)	$3,909,891,533,858.08	$4,027,597,523,550.58	3% lower	Japan
Hypertension Prevalence	31.3% of adults	32% of adults	2% lower	Japan
Imports (% GDP)	23.49% of GDP	23.64% of GDP	1% lower	Japan
Can Raise Emergency Money	95.18% of adults	96.08% of adults	1% lower	Japan
Time Zones Count	3.0 time zones	3.0 time zones	equal	India
Electricity Access (%)	99.5%	100%	equal	Japan
Lowest Elevation	0 m	-4 m	ranked higher	India
Land Border Length	13.9K km	0 km	ranked higher	India
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-0.9% of GDP	4.8% of GDP	ranked lower	Japan
Border Neighbors	6.0	0	ranked higher	India

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Analysis

Japan leads in 68 of 124 shared metrics, while India leads in 56.

India's GDP Growth Rate is 61.3x that of Japan (6.5% vs 0.10%).

India's Irrigated Land is 47.0x that of Japan (754.6K km² vs 15.7K km²).

India's Capital Elevation is 35.0x that of Japan (216 m vs 6.0 m).

India's Political Corruption Index is 12.7x that of Japan (0.68 vs 0.05).

India's Infant Mortality is 12.6x that of Japan (24.5 per 1k births vs 1.8 per 1k births).

Key Comparisons

GDP Growth RateIndia leads

India

6.5%

Japan

0.10%

Irrigated LandIndia leads

India

754.6K km²

Japan

15.7K km²

Capital ElevationIndia leads

India

216 m

Japan

6.0 m

Political Corruption IndexIndia leads

India

0.68

Japan

0.05

Infant MortalityIndia leads

India

24.5 per 1k births

Japan

1.8 per 1k births

Homicide RateIndia leads

India

2.8 per 100k

Japan

0.23 per 100k

GDP Growth Rate

6.5%

0.10%

Irrigated Land

754.6K km²

15.7K km²

Capital Elevation

216 m

6.0 m

Political Corruption Index

0.68

0.05

Infant Mortality

24.5 per 1k births

1.8 per 1k births

Homicide Rate

2.8 per 100k

0.23 per 100k

Armed Forces Personnel

3.07M

261.0K

Child Mortality

27.7 per 1k births

2.4 per 1k births

Population

1.42B

123.20M

Land Area

2.97M km²

364.6K km²

Water Withdrawal

647.5 B m³

79.7 B m³

Teen Birth Rate

14.06 per 1k

1.7 per 1k

Road Traffic Death Rate

14.6 per 100k

2.7 per 100k

Agricultural Land (%)

60.06%

12.64%

Youth Unemployment Rate

16.02% of youth labor force

3.9% of youth labor force

Wind Electricity Share

5.0%

1.3%

Renewable Energy (%)

34.9%

8.8%

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

48.39 µg/m³

12.84 µg/m³

Total CO2 Emissions

3.2K Mt CO2e

972.27 Mt CO2e

Forest Area

729.6K km²

249.3K km²

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

GDP Growth Rate

Irrigated Land

Capital Elevation

Political Corruption Index

Infant Mortality

Homicide Rate

Armed Forces Personnel

Child Mortality

Population

Land Area

Water Withdrawal

Teen Birth Rate

Road Traffic Death Rate

Agricultural Land (%)

Youth Unemployment Rate

Wind Electricity Share

Renewable Energy (%)

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Total CO2 Emissions

Forest Area

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Water Stress (%)

Railway Length

Birth Rate

Highest Elevation

Coal Electricity Share

Youth Population (%)

Spirits Consumption

Electricity Generation

Scientific Publications

Official Languages Count

McDonald's Outlets per Million People

Health Spending Per Capita

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Researchers

All-Time Olympic Gold Medals

All-Time Olympic Medals

Broadband Access (%)

GNI Per Capita

Credit Card Ownership

Beer Consumption

Meat Consumption per Person

Domestic Patents

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Nurses & Midwives

Inflation Rate

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Seafood Consumption per Person

R&D Spending (% GDP)

Government Debt (% GDP)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Coastline Length

Elderly Population (%)

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Protected Land (%)

Doctors (per 1,000)

CO2 Per Capita

Health Spending (% GDP)

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Military Spending

Liberal Democracy Index

Merchant Fleet Size

Forest Coverage (%)

Unemployment Rate

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Urban Population (%)

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

Electoral Democracy Index

Air Passengers