Japan's life expectancy rose from 79.5 yrs in 1995 to 84.0 yrs in 2024.
Japan · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
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Japan's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 71.1 yrs in 2000 to 73.4 yrs in 2021.
Japan's infant mortality fell from 4.1 ‰ in 1995 to 1.8 ‰ in 2024.
Japan's under-5 mortality rate fell from 5.7 ‰ in 1995 to 2.4 ‰ in 2024.
Japan's maternal mortality ratio fell from 11.0 /100k in 1994 to 3.0 /100k in 2023.
Japan's ncd mortality fell from 11.3 % in 2000 to 8.0 % in 2021.
Japan's suicide mortality rate fell from 24.1 /100k in 2000 to 17.4 /100k in 2021.
Japan's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 12.5 /100k in 2000 to 3.6 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingdown −1.6 pts20th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)down −13.4 %24th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +1.1 pts37th of 192
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- Physiciansup +2.2 %59th of 129*
- Nurses and midwivesup +5.1 %8th of 129
- Hospital bedsdown −0.1 %2nd of 113*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +1.0 pts60th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +1.0 pts1st of 192
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- Incidence of tuberculosisunchanged +0.0 %58th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterunchanged +0.0 pts34th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.0 pts9th of 141
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