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Japan: Health System Facts

Japan: Health System Facts, including information on costs, coverage, outcomes, and more.

Japanese Health System Overview
Health System Rankings
Health System Outcomes
Health System Coverage
Costs for Consumers
COVID-19 National Strategy

Health System Financing and Expenditures
Medical Personnel
Health System Physical Resources and Utilization
Long-Term Care
Medical Training

Political System
Economic System
Population Demographics
Health System History, Development, and Challenges


Japan: Demographics

Population: 126,860,000
Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019: Data Booklet (ST/ESA/SER.A/424). More info here.

Japan: Health System Coverage

Population Health Coverage (%): 100%
Source: OECD (2019), Health at a Glance 2019: OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/4dd50c09-en. More info here.

Japanese Health System: Costs

Cost as Portion of GDP (%): 10.9%
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More info here.

Expenditure Per Capita (US$): $4,233
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More info here.

Annual Out of Pocket Spending Per Capita (US$): $582
Source: Global Health Expenditure Database. Health expenditure series. Geneva: World Health Organization. Last accessed Nov. 15, 2019. More info here.

Japan: Health System Outcomes

Care Ranking: 11
Source: GBD 2017 SDG Collaborators. “Measuring progress from 1990 to 2017 and projecting attainment to 2030 of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.” Lancet (London, England) vol. 392,10159 (2018): 2091-2138. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32281-5. More info here.

Life Expectancy: 84.2 Years
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More info here.

Infant Mortality (Deaths Per 1,000 Live Births): 2
Source: UNICEF (2019). The State of the World’s Children 2019. Children, Food and Nutrition: Growing well in a changing world. UNICEF, New York. More info here.

Japan: Medical Personnel

Doctors Per 10,000 Population: 24.1
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More info here.

Nurses Per 10,000 Population: 115.2
Source: World health statistics 2019: monitoring health for the SDGs, sustainable development goals. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2019. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. More info here.


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Page last updated Dec. 3, 2020 by Doug McVay, Editor.

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