Ethiopia: 0 km (2026 edition) · Japan: 29,751 km (2026 edition)

Ethiopia’s highest peak towers 774 m above Japan’s

Ethiopia: 4,550 m (2026 edition) · Japan: 3,776 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 34% of Ethiopia, versus 13% of Japan

Ethiopia: 34.3% (2024) · Japan: 12.6% (2024)

Ethiopia has 10% more people than Japan

Ethiopia: 135 million (2025) · Japan: 123 million (2025)

Japan is 2.8 times as densely populated as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 121 per km² (2025) · Japan: 338 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Japan is 30 years older than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 18.7 years (2023) · Japan: 49 years (2023)

Women in Ethiopia have 2.8 more children on average than in Japan

Ethiopia: 3.91 children per woman (2024) · Japan: 1.15 children per woman (2024)

30% of people in Japan are 65 or older, versus 3.3% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Japan: 30% (2025)

Ethiopia hosts 22 times as many refugees per resident as Japan

Ethiopia: 7.5 per 1,000 (2025) · Japan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2025)

Japan has produced 2.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ethiopia 0.1

Ethiopia: 0.1 (2026) · Japan: 2.5 (2026)

Ethiopia and Japan are practically level

Ethiopia: 1 (2026) · Japan: 1 (2026)

Japan’s economy is 35 times the size of Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: $126 billion (2025) · Japan: $4.44 trillion (2025)

Japan produces 15 times as much per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Int$3,622 (2025) · Japan: Int$55,422 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Japan than in Ethiopia (Gini 1.2 points higher)

Ethiopia: 31.1 (2021) · Japan: 32.3 (2020)

39% of people in Ethiopia live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.2% in Japan

Ethiopia: 38.6% (2021) · Japan: 1.2% (2020)

Unemployment is 3.3% in Ethiopia, versus 2.5% in Japan

Ethiopia: 3.3% (2025) · Japan: 2.5% (2025)

Japan spends 1.4% of its GDP on the military, Ethiopia 0.5%

Ethiopia: 0.5% (2025) · Japan: 1.4% (2025)

Ethiopia: 3.4% (2024) · Japan: no data

Japan’s price level (US = 100) is 2.5× Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 26% (2025) · Japan: 65% (2025)

Japan spends 105 times as much on health per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: $35 (2023) · Japan: $3,638 (2023)

A baby in Ethiopia is 19 times as likely to die before turning one as in Japan

Ethiopia: 34.5 per 1,000 (2024) · Japan: 1.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Japan has 19 times as many doctors per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 per 1,000 (2023) · Japan: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Japan has 38 times as many hospital beds per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.3 per 1,000 (2016) · Japan: 12.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Ethiopia and Japan are nearly identical here

Ethiopia: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Japan: 14.4 per 100k (2023)

5.2% of adults in Japan are obese, versus 2.5% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.5% (2024) · Japan: 5.2% (2024)

18% of adults in Japan smoke, versus 5.2% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 5.2% (2024) · Japan: 17.5% (2024)

People in Japan rate their lives 2.15 points higher than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 3.99 (2025) · Japan: 6.13 (2025)

Adults in Japan drink 2.8 times as much alcohol as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.3 litres (2023) · Japan: 6.3 litres (2023)

Japan has 8.7 times as much meat per person as Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 6.9 kg (2023) · Japan: 59.9 kg (2022)

Japan has 112 kcal more food per person per day than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2,558 kcal (2023) · Japan: 2,670 kcal (2022)

Workers in Japan put in 54 more hours a year than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 1,599 hours (2023) · Japan: 1,654 hours (2023)

Adults in Japan went to school 10 years longer than in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 2.4 years (2023) · Japan: 12.7 years (2023)

Japan welcomed 73 times as many tourists per resident as Ethiopia (2019)

Ethiopia: 0.0041 (2024) · Japan: 0.3 (2024)

Japan has 15 more World Heritage sites than Ethiopia (27 against 12)

Ethiopia: 12 (2026) · Japan: 27 (2026)

Japan has won 642 Olympic medals, Ethiopia 62

Ethiopia: 62 (2026 edition) · Japan: 642 (2026 edition)

86% of people in Japan are online, versus 22% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22% (2024) · Japan: 86% (2024)

Home internet in Japan is 15 times as fast as in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 22 Mbps (2026) · Japan: 322 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Japan have electricity, versus 57% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 56.6% (2024) · Japan: 100% (2024)

92% of people in Japan live in cities, versus 24% in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 24% (2025) · Japan: 92% (2025)

Japan has 178 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ethiopia 65

Ethiopia: 65 (2024) · Japan: 178 (2023)

Japan’s railway network is 27 times as long as Ethiopia’s

Ethiopia: 754 km (2018) · Japan: 20,087 km (2011)

Airlines from Japan fly 8.6 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.11 (2023) · Japan: 0.98 (2023)

Forest covers 68% of Japan, but only 24% of Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 23.8% (2024) · Japan: 68.3% (2024)

The average person in Japan emits 58 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 0.1 t (2024) · Japan: 7.8 t (2024)

100% of Ethiopia’s electricity is renewable, versus 24% in Japan

Ethiopia: 100% (2025) · Japan: 23.6% (2025)

The air in Ethiopia carries 92% more fine dust than in Japan

Ethiopia: 20.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Japan: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024)

Ethiopia: no data · Japan: 0.2 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ethiopia are 6.3 times as deadly as in Japan

Ethiopia: 23.9 per 100k (2023) · Japan: 3.8 per 100k (2023)

Ethiopia is on average 11.1 °C warmer than Japan

Ethiopia: 23.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Japan: 12.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Japan gets 90% more rain than Ethiopia

Ethiopia: 962 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Japan: 1,824 mm (2016–2025 avg)