Japan vs Spain statistics compared

Japan has a population of 124M (ranked 12/197), compared with 48.8M in Spain (ranked 32/197). Japan's land area is 140,761 sq mi versus 192,934 sq mi for Spain (ranked 61st vs. 51st).

By GDP, Japan ranks 4/197 ($4.03T) and Spain ranks 14/197 ($1.72T). By GDP per capita, Japan ranks 37/197 ($32,476), while Spain ranks 31/197 ($35,297).

Japan and Spain: Comparison Charts

Japan and Spain economies compared

GDP

Japan

Spain

Table

Year	GDP
	Japan	Spain
1960	$47,419,238,274	$12,424,514,014
1961	$57,266,758,180	$14,238,126,760
1962	$64,987,857,542	$16,609,632,791
1963	$74,379,284,603	$19,631,714,760
1964	$87,490,590,818	$21,966,876,027
1965	$97,338,107,606	$25,479,619,607
1966	$113,046,784,179	$29,559,436,183
1967	$132,475,614,227	$32,570,905,397
1968	$156,897,496,759	$32,394,326,464
1969	$184,298,841,305	$37,090,689,288
1970	$217,223,652,719	$40,963,715,237
1971	$245,364,056,622	$46,586,119,760
1972	$324,933,841,269	$59,090,176,029
1973	$441,460,582,536	$78,583,355,226
1974	$490,035,789,970	$97,204,522,642
1975	$532,861,438,885	$114,695,060,870
1976	$598,883,902,156	$118,422,534,195
1977	$737,069,290,928	$132,354,665,936
1978	$1,035,611,588,217	$160,484,969,618
1979	$1,077,910,077,676	$214,448,666,336
1980	$1,129,377,244,854	$232,600,556,974
1981	$1,245,221,410,764	$202,663,023,968
1982	$1,158,731,426,906	$195,856,752,991
1983	$1,270,859,919,743	$170,829,074,246
1984	$1,345,824,500,837	$171,979,977,230
1985	$1,427,019,759,717	$180,664,322,896
1986	$2,120,083,812,110	$251,141,555,186
1987	$2,580,748,422,781	$318,520,253,335
1988	$3,125,724,434,401	$375,891,716,898
1989	$3,109,455,047,824	$414,460,794,097
1990	$3,185,904,656,664	$536,175,326,477
1991	$3,648,065,760,649	$576,753,902,322
1992	$3,980,702,922,118	$630,465,353,486
1993	$4,536,940,479,038	$524,700,572,624
1994	$4,998,797,547,741	$530,183,651,720
1995	$5,545,563,663,890	$614,170,002,669
1996	$4,923,391,533,852	$642,251,412,058
1997	$4,492,448,605,639	$589,739,772,727
1998	$4,098,362,709,531	$618,731,484,575
1999	$4,635,982,224,064	$634,394,904,387
2000	$4,968,359,075,957	$598,102,854,756
2001	$4,374,711,694,091	$627,798,682,379
2002	$4,182,846,045,874	$708,938,227,244
2003	$4,519,561,645,254	$907,963,217,058
2004	$4,893,116,005,657	$1,069,829,382,515
2005	$4,831,467,035,390	$1,154,667,551,776
2006	$4,601,663,122,650	$1,261,846,683,275
2007	$4,579,750,920,355	$1,476,746,276,855
2008	$5,106,679,115,127	$1,636,115,447,613
2009	$5,289,493,117,994	$1,496,587,590,848
2010	$5,759,071,769,013	$1,427,989,078,917
2011	$6,233,147,172,341	$1,487,568,659,241
2012	$6,272,362,996,105	$1,330,994,811,670
2013	$5,212,328,181,166	$1,362,186,923,158
2014	$4,896,994,405,353	$1,380,244,561,362
2015	$4,444,930,651,964	$1,206,164,777,553
2016	$5,003,677,627,544	$1,243,015,667,917
2017	$4,930,837,369,151	$1,321,754,088,819
2018	$5,040,880,939,325	$1,431,642,809,327
2019	$5,117,993,853,017	$1,403,496,387,686
2020	$5,054,068,005,376	$1,289,783,836,971
2021	$5,039,148,168,861	$1,461,244,901,853
2022	$4,262,463,317,797	$1,446,498,147,749
2023	$4,213,167,237,906	$1,620,090,734,957
2024	$4,026,210,821,147	$1,722,745,978,335

Japan and Spain economies compared

GDP per capita

Japan

Spain

Table

Year	GDP per capita
	Japan	Spain
1960	$509	$408
1961	$609	$463
1962	$685	$535
1963	$776	$627
1964	$903	$695
1965	$994	$797
1966	$1,144	$916
1967	$1,326	$997
1968	$1,553	$978
1969	$1,803	$1,109
1970	$2,101	$1,211
1971	$2,321	$1,361
1972	$3,031	$1,708
1973	$4,061	$2,246
1974	$4,448	$2,748
1975	$4,776	$3,208
1976	$5,310	$3,277
1977	$6,473	$3,625
1978	$9,012	$4,353
1979	$9,301	$5,766
1980	$9,669	$6,204
1981	$10,583	$5,367
1982	$9,780	$5,156
1983	$10,652	$4,475
1984	$11,207	$4,487
1985	$11,809	$4,696
1986	$17,452	$6,509
1987	$21,142	$8,234
1988	$25,500	$9,696
1989	$25,266	$10,674
1990	$25,801	$13,795
1991	$29,428	$14,801
1992	$31,993	$16,101
1993	$36,345	$13,330
1994	$39,934	$13,406
1995	$44,198	$15,461
1996	$39,150	$16,101
1997	$35,638	$14,722
1998	$32,424	$15,382
1999	$36,610	$15,708
2000	$39,169	$14,743
2001	$34,406	$15,368
2002	$32,821	$17,111
2003	$35,387	$21,522
2004	$38,299	$24,925
2005	$37,813	$26,451
2006	$35,992	$28,422
2007	$35,779	$32,652
2008	$39,876	$35,603
2009	$41,309	$32,280
2010	$44,968	$30,659
2011	$48,760	$31,825
2012	$49,145	$28,456
2013	$40,899	$29,229
2014	$38,475	$29,708
2015	$34,961	$25,982
2016	$39,375	$26,756
2017	$38,834	$28,381
2018	$39,751	$30,602
2019	$40,416	$29,787
2020	$40,029	$27,234
2021	$40,095	$30,799
2022	$34,066	$30,270
2023	$33,836	$33,509
2024	$32,476	$35,297

Japan vs. Spain life expectancy calculator

Life expectancy

Japan

Spain

Table

Year	Life expectancy, years
	Japan	Spain
1950	59.3	61.8
1951	61	61.5
1952	63	64.8
1953	63.3	65.7
1954	64.5	66.9
1955	65.7	66.7
1956	65.6	66.8
1957	65.4	66.6
1958	67	68.8
1959	67.5	68.7
1960	67.7	69.2
1961	68.4	69.6
1962	68.7	69.6
1963	69.7	69.8
1964	70.2	70.5
1965	70.3	70.9
1966	71.1	71.2
1967	71.4	71.3
1968	71.7	71.7
1969	71.9	71.1
1970	72	72.1
1971	72.8	71.7
1972	73.3	73
1973	73.4	72.7
1974	73.8	73.1
1975	74.4	73.5
1976	74.8	73.8
1977	75.3	74.3
1978	75.7	74.5
1979	76.2	75
1980	76.1	75.5
1981	76.6	75.7
1982	77.1	76.3
1983	77.1	76.1
1984	77.5	76.5
1985	77.8	76.4
1986	78.2	76.7
1987	78.6	77
1988	78.5	76.9
1989	79	77
1990	79	77
1991	79.3	77.1
1992	79.3	77.6
1993	79.4	77.7
1994	79.8	78.1
1995	79.7	78.2
1996	80.4	78.3
1997	80.6	78.9
1998	80.6	78.9
1999	80.6	78.9
2000	81.2	79.4
2001	81.5	79.7
2002	81.8	79.8
2003	81.9	79.7
2004	82.1	80.3
2005	82	80.3
2006	82.4	81
2007	82.5	81
2008	82.6	81.3
2009	83	81.6
2010	82.9	82
2011	82.7	82.2
2012	83.2	82.2
2013	83.4	82.7
2014	83.6	82.8
2015	83.9	82.6
2016	84.1	83
2017	84.2	83
2018	84.3	83.1
2019	84.4	83.5
2020	84.7	82.2
2021	84.6	83
2022	84.1	82.4
2023	84.7	83.7
2024	84.9	83.8
2025	85	84

Japan and Spain population clocks and comparison

Population

Japan

Spain

Table

Year	Population
	Japan	Spain
1960	93,216,000	30,455,000
1961	94,055,000	30,739,250
1962	94,933,000	31,023,366
1963	95,900,000	31,296,651
1964	96,903,000	31,609,195
1965	97,952,000	31,954,292
1966	98,851,000	32,283,194
1967	99,879,000	32,682,947
1968	101,011,000	33,113,134
1969	102,219,000	33,441,054
1970	103,403,000	33,814,531
1971	105,697,000	34,224,490
1972	107,188,000	34,604,469
1973	108,707,000	34,988,947
1974	110,162,000	35,373,335
1975	111,573,000	35,757,900
1976	112,775,000	36,137,812
1977	113,872,000	36,511,638
1978	114,913,000	36,864,898
1979	115,890,000	37,191,330
1980	116,807,000	37,491,165
1981	117,661,000	37,758,631
1982	118,480,000	37,986,012
1983	119,307,000	38,171,525
1984	120,083,000	38,330,364
1985	120,837,000	38,469,512
1986	121,482,000	38,584,624
1987	122,069,000	38,684,815
1988	122,578,000	38,766,939
1989	123,069,000	38,827,764
1990	123,478,000	38,867,322
1991	123,964,000	38,966,376
1992	124,425,000	39,157,685
1993	124,829,000	39,361,262
1994	125,178,000	39,549,108
1995	125,472,000	39,724,050
1996	125,757,000	39,889,852
1997	126,057,000	40,057,389
1998	126,400,000	40,223,509
1999	126,631,000	40,386,875
2000	126,843,000	40,567,864
2001	127,149,000	40,850,412
2002	127,445,000	41,431,558
2003	127,718,000	42,187,645
2004	127,761,000	42,921,895
2005	127,773,000	43,653,155
2006	127,854,000	44,397,319
2007	128,001,000	45,226,803
2008	128,063,000	45,954,106
2009	128,047,000	46,362,946
2010	128,070,000	46,576,897
2011	127,833,000	46,742,697
2012	127,629,000	46,773,055
2013	127,445,000	46,604,197
2014	127,276,000	46,460,733
2015	127,141,000	46,422,303
2016	127,076,000	46,458,139
2017	126,972,000	46,571,232
2018	126,811,000	46,782,011
2019	126,633,000	47,118,501
2020	126,261,000	47,359,424
2021	125,681,593	47,443,821
2022	125,124,989	47,786,102
2023	124,516,650	48,347,910
2024	123,975,371	48,807,137

Fertility rates in Japan and Spain

Fertility rate

Japan

Spain

Table

Year	Fertility rate
	Japan	Spain
1960	2	2.86
1961	1.96	2.77
1962	1.98	2.8
1963	2	2.88
1964	2.05	3.01
1965	2.14	2.94
1966	1.58	2.91
1967	2.23	2.94
1968	2.13	2.87
1969	2.13	2.86
1970	2.13	2.84
1971	2.16	2.9
1972	2.14	2.87
1973	2.14	2.84
1974	2.05	2.88
1975	1.91	2.77
1976	1.85	2.77
1977	1.8	2.65
1978	1.79	2.54
1979	1.77	2.37
1980	1.75	2.22
1981	1.74	2.04
1982	1.77	1.94
1983	1.8	1.8
1984	1.81	1.73
1985	1.76	1.64
1986	1.72	1.56
1987	1.69	1.49
1988	1.66	1.45
1989	1.57	1.4
1990	1.54	1.36
1991	1.53	1.33
1992	1.5	1.31
1993	1.46	1.26
1994	1.5	1.19
1995	1.42	1.16
1996	1.43	1.14
1997	1.39	1.15
1998	1.38	1.13
1999	1.34	1.17
2000	1.36	1.22
2001	1.33	1.23
2002	1.32	1.25
2003	1.29	1.3
2004	1.29	1.31
2005	1.26	1.33
2006	1.32	1.36
2007	1.34	1.38
2008	1.37	1.45
2009	1.37	1.38
2010	1.39	1.37
2011	1.39	1.34
2012	1.41	1.32
2013	1.43	1.27
2014	1.42	1.32
2015	1.45	1.33
2016	1.44	1.33
2017	1.43	1.31
2018	1.42	1.26
2019	1.36	1.23
2020	1.33	1.18
2021	1.3	1.18
2022	1.26	1.16
2023	1.2	1.12

Japan and Spain demographics compared

Median age

Japan

Spain

Table

Year	Median age, years
	Japan	Spain
1960	25.8	29.4
1961	26.2	29.6
1962	26.5	29.7
1963	26.9	29.9
1964	27.2	30.1
1965	27.6	30.2
1966	28	30.3
1967	28.4	30.4
1968	28.6	30.4
1969	28.9	30.2
1970	29.2	30.1
1971	29.6	30.1
1972	29.9	30
1973	30.2	30
1974	30.4	30
1975	30.6	30
1976	30.9	30.1
1977	31.5	30.2
1978	32	30.4
1979	32.4	30.6
1980	32.8	30.7
1981	33.1	30.9
1982	33.7	31.1
1983	34.3	31.4
1984	34.9	31.6
1985	35.4	31.9
1986	35.9	32.2
1987	36.3	32.5
1988	36.8	32.9
1989	37.2	33.2
1990	37.7	33.6
1991	38.2	33.9
1992	38.7	34.2
1993	39.2	34.6
1994	39.6	34.9
1995	40	35.3
1996	40.3	35.7
1997	40.7	36.2
1998	41	36.6
1999	41.4	37
2000	41.8	37.4
2001	42.1	37.8
2002	42.5	38.1
2003	42.8	38.3
2004	43.2	38.5
2005	43.6	38.8
2006	43.9	39
2007	44.2	39.2
2008	44.6	39.4
2009	44.9	39.8
2010	45.2	40.2
2011	45.5	40.6
2012	45.8	41.1
2013	46.2	41.7
2014	46.6	42.2
2015	47	42.7
2016	47.3	43.1
2017	47.6	43.5
2018	48	43.8
2019	48.3	44.1
2020	48.7	44.5
2021	49.1	44.9
2022	49.5	45.4
2023	50	45.9
2024	50.4	46.4

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