Japan’s coastline is 28 times as long as Pakistan’s

Japan: 29,751 km (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 1,046 km (2026 edition)

Pakistan’s highest peak towers 4,835 m above Japan’s

Japan: 3,776 m (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 8,611 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Pakistan, versus 13% of Japan

Japan: 12.6% (2024) · Pakistan: 47.2% (2024)

Pakistan has 2.1 times as many people as Japan

Japan: 123 million (2025) · Pakistan: 255 million (2025)

Japan is 2% more densely populated than Pakistan

Japan: 338 per km² (2025) · Pakistan: 331 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Japan is 29 years older than in Pakistan

Japan: 49 years (2023) · Pakistan: 20.3 years (2023)

Women in Pakistan have 2.4 more children on average than in Japan

Japan: 1.15 children per woman (2024) · Pakistan: 3.55 children per woman (2024)

30% of people in Japan are 65 or older, versus 4.4% in Pakistan

Japan: 30% (2025) · Pakistan: 4.4% (2025)

Pakistan hosts 13 times as many refugees per resident as Japan

Japan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Pakistan: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

Pakistan has 2 official languages, Japan 1

Japan: 1 (2026) · Pakistan: 2 (2026)

Japan’s economy is 11 times the size of Pakistan’s

Japan: $4.44 trillion (2025) · Pakistan: $407 billion (2025)

Japan produces 8.4 times as much per person as Pakistan

Japan: Int$55,422 (2025) · Pakistan: Int$6,573 (2025)

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

Japan: 32.3 (2020) · Pakistan: 33.5 (2024)

23% of people in Pakistan live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.2% in Japan

Japan: 1.2% (2020) · Pakistan: 23% (2024)

Unemployment is 5.4% in Pakistan, versus 2.5% in Japan

Japan: 2.5% (2025) · Pakistan: 5.4% (2025)

Pakistan spends 2.9% of its GDP on the military, Japan 1.4%

Japan: 1.4% (2025) · Pakistan: 2.9% (2025)

Japan’s price level (US = 100) is 2.7× Pakistan’s

Japan: 65% (2025) · Pakistan: 24% (2025)

Japan spends 119 times as much on health per person as Pakistan

Japan: $3,638 (2023) · Pakistan: $30 (2023)

A baby in Pakistan is 27 times as likely to die before turning one as in Japan

Japan: 1.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Pakistan: 48.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Japan has 2.3 times as many doctors per person as Pakistan

Japan: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Pakistan: 1.2 per 1,000 (2021)

Japan has 20 times as many hospital beds per person as Pakistan

Japan: 12.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Pakistan: 0.6 per 1,000 (2020)

The suicide rate in Japan is 58% higher than in Pakistan

Japan: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Pakistan: 9.1 per 100k (2023)

24% of adults in Pakistan are obese, versus 5.2% in Japan

Japan: 5.2% (2024) · Pakistan: 23.5% (2024)

Pakistan and Japan are practically level

Japan: 17.5% (2024) · Pakistan: 17.9% (2024)

People in Japan rate their lives 1.26 points higher than in Pakistan

Japan: 6.13 (2025) · Pakistan: 4.87 (2025)

Adults in Japan drink 72 times as much alcohol as in Pakistan

Japan: 6.3 litres (2023) · Pakistan: 0.1 litres (2023)

Japan has 2.8 times as much meat per person as Pakistan

Japan: 59.9 kg (2022) · Pakistan: 21.2 kg (2023)

Japan has 156 kcal more food per person per day than Pakistan

Japan: 2,670 kcal (2022) · Pakistan: 2,514 kcal (2023)

Workers in Pakistan put in 817 more hours a year than in Japan

Japan: 1,654 hours (2023) · Pakistan: 2,471 hours (2023)

Adults in Japan went to school 8.4 years longer than in Pakistan

Japan: 12.7 years (2023) · Pakistan: 4.3 years (2023)

Japan: 0.3 (2024) · Pakistan: no data

Japan has 21 more World Heritage sites than Pakistan (27 against 6)

Japan: 27 (2026) · Pakistan: 6 (2026)

Japan has won 642 Olympic medals, Pakistan 11

Japan: 642 (2026 edition) · Pakistan: 11 (2026 edition)

86% of people in Japan are online, versus 57% in Pakistan

Japan: 86% (2024) · Pakistan: 57% (2024)

Home internet in Japan is 14 times as fast as in Pakistan

Japan: 322 Mbps (2026) · Pakistan: 24 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Japan have electricity, versus 96% in Pakistan

Japan: 100% (2024) · Pakistan: 95.7% (2024)

92% of people in Japan live in cities, versus 40% in Pakistan

Japan: 92% (2025) · Pakistan: 40% (2025)

Japan has 178 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Pakistan 77

Japan: 178 (2023) · Pakistan: 77 (2024)

Japan’s railway network is 2.6 times as long as Pakistan’s

Japan: 20,087 km (2011) · Pakistan: 7,791 km (2019)

Airlines from Japan fly 35 times as many passengers per resident as those from Pakistan

Japan: 0.98 (2023) · Pakistan: 0.03 (2023)

Forest covers 68% of Japan, but only 4.1% of Pakistan

Japan: 68.3% (2024) · Pakistan: 4.1% (2024)

The average person in Japan emits 11 times as much CO₂ as someone in Pakistan

Japan: 7.8 t (2024) · Pakistan: 0.7 t (2024)

43% of Pakistan’s electricity is renewable, versus 24% in Japan

Japan: 23.6% (2025) · Pakistan: 42.7% (2025)

The air in Pakistan carries 5.1 times as much fine dust as in Japan

Japan: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Pakistan: 53.8 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 19 times as likely to be murdered in Pakistan as in Japan

Japan: 0.2 per 100k (2023) · Pakistan: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Pakistan are 4.4 times as deadly as in Japan

Japan: 3.8 per 100k (2023) · Pakistan: 16.7 per 100k (2023)

Pakistan is on average 8.2 °C warmer than Japan

Japan: 12.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Pakistan: 21°C (2016–2025 avg)

Japan gets 4.4 times as much rain as Pakistan

Japan: 1,824 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Pakistan: 416 mm (2016–2025 avg)