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Geography

Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean peninsula

Area:
total area: 377,835 sq km
land area: 374,744 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than California

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 29,751 km


People

Population: 125,506,492 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 16% (female 9,955,603; male 10,542,973)
15-64 years: 69% (female 43,377,425; male 43,843,645)
65 years and over: 15% (female 10,514,017; male 7,272,829)

Population growth rate: 0.32% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 10.66 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.46 deaths/1,000 population

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

Infant mortality rate: 4.3 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 79.44 years
male: 76.6 years
female: 82.42 years

Total fertility rate: 1.56 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Japanese 99.4%, other 0.6% (mostly Korean)

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

Languages: Japanese

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1970 est.)
total population: 99%
male:
female:


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Japan

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Tokyo

Independence: 660 BC (traditional founding by Emperor Jimmu)

Constitution: 3 May 1947


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $2.5274 trillion

National product real growth rate: 0.6%

National product per capita: $20,200

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.7%

Unemployment rate: 2.9%

Electricity:
capacity: 205,140,000 kW
production: 840 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 6,262 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Pin trading was one of the most popular Olympic sports, with more than 1.2 million pins changing hands during the Games in the Coca Cola Pin Trading Center at Centennial Olympic Park.