The Philippines’ coastline is 22% longer than Japan’s

Japan: 29,751 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Japan’s highest peak towers 822 m above the Philippines’

Japan: 3,776 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 13% of Japan

Japan: 12.6% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

Japan has 6% more people than the Philippines

Japan: 123 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 16% more densely populated than Japan

Japan: 338 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Japan is 24 years older than in the Philippines

Japan: 49 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.7 more children on average than in Japan

Japan: 1.15 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

30% of people in Japan are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Japan: 30% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Japan hosts 39 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Japan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

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

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

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Japan 1

Japan: 1 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

Japan’s economy is 9.1 times the size of the Philippines’

Japan: $4.44 trillion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Japan produces 4.4 times as much per person as the Philippines

Japan: Int$55,422 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the Philippines than in Japan (Gini 7 points higher)

Japan: 32.3 (2020) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.2% in Japan

Japan: 1.2% (2020) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Japan and the Philippines are practically level

Japan: 2.5% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Japan and the Philippines are practically level

Japan: 1.4% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

Japan: no data · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Japan’s price level (US = 100) is 2× the Philippines’

Japan: 65% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Japan spends 19 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Japan: $3,638 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 12 times as likely to die before turning one as in Japan

Japan: 1.8 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Japan has 3.3 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Japan: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Japan has 13 times as many hospital beds per person as the Philippines

Japan: 12.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Philippines: 1 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Japan is 4.6 times that in the Philippines

Japan: 14.4 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

9.7% of adults in the Philippines are obese, versus 5.2% in Japan

Japan: 5.2% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 18% in Japan

Japan: 17.5% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 0.08 points higher than in Japan

Japan: 6.13 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in Japan drink 3% more alcohol than in the Philippines

Japan: 6.3 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Japan has 78% more meat per person than the Philippines

Japan: 59.9 kg (2022) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

The Philippines has 313 kcal more food per person per day than Japan

Japan: 2,670 kcal (2022) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 442 more hours a year than in Japan

Japan: 1,654 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in Japan went to school 2.7 years longer than in the Philippines

Japan: 12.7 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Japan welcomed 13 times as many tourists per resident as the Philippines (2019)

Japan: 0.3 (2024) · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

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

Japan: 27 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

Japan has won 642 Olympic medals, the Philippines 18

Japan: 642 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

86% of people in Japan are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Japan: 86% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Japan is 95% faster than in the Philippines

Japan: 322 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Japan have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Japan: 100% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

92% of people in Japan live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Japan: 92% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

Japan has 178 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the Philippines 115

Japan: 178 (2023) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Japan’s railway network is 39 times as long as the Philippines’

Japan: 20,087 km (2011) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from Japan fly 2.7 times as many passengers per resident as those from the Philippines

Japan: 0.98 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 68% of Japan, but only 25% of the Philippines

Japan: 68.3% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Japan emits 5.1 times as much CO₂ as someone in the Philippines

Japan: 7.8 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

Japan and the Philippines are practically level

Japan: 23.6% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 2.2 times as much fine dust as in Japan

Japan: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 19 times as likely to be murdered in the Philippines as in Japan

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

Roads in the Philippines are 3.6 times as deadly as in Japan

Japan: 3.8 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 13.6 °C warmer than Japan

Japan: 12.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

The Philippines gets 65% more rain than Japan

Japan: 1,824 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)