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Japan Facts - Population:

127,333,002 (July 2004 est.)

Age structure:

0-14 years: 14.3% (male 9,337,867; female 8,876,996)
15-64 years: 66.7% (male 42,697,264; female 42,196,835)
65 years and over: 19% (male 10,169,190; female 14,054,850) (2004 est.)

Median age:

total: 42.3 years
male: 40.5 years
female: 44.1 years (2004 est.)

Population growth rate:

0.08% (2004 est.)

Net migration rate:

0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)

Ethnic groups:

Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914)

Japan Facts - Economy

GDP:

purchasing power parity with UK - £2.487 trillion (2003 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:

2.7% (2003 est.)

GDP - per capita:

purchasing power parity with UK - £19,583 (2003 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 1.3%
industry: 25.4%
services: 73.3% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):

23.9% of GDP (2003)

Population below poverty line:

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

-0.3% (2003)

Labour force:

66.66 million (2003)

Unemployment rate:

5.3% (2003)

Budget:

revenues: £0.922 trillion
expenditures: £1.142 trillion, including capital expenditures (public works only) of about £48.6 billion (2003 est.)

Exports:

£310 billion (2003 est.)

Imports:

£240 billion (2003 est.)
Japan Facts - Communications:

Telephones - main lines in use:

71.149 million (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

86.659 million (2003)

Internet country code:

.jp

Internet hosts:

12.962 million (2003)

Internet users:

57.2 million (2002)

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