Economic: GDP Real Growth Rate GDP Per Capita Unemployment Rate Inflation Rate Population Below Poverty Line
United States
Canada
Japan
4.4% (2004 est.)
2.4% (2004 est.)
2.9% (2004 est.)
purchasing power parity $40,100 (2004 est.) 5.5% (2004 est.)
purchasing power parity $31,500 (2004 est.) 7% (2004)
purchasing power parity $29,400 (2004 est.) 4.7% (2004 est.)
2.5% (2004 est.) 12% (2004 est.)
1.9% (2004 est.) 15.9% (2003)
-0.1% (2004 est.)
United States
Canada
Japan
white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2% (2003 est.) note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.) English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other IndoEuropean 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) 295,734,134 (July 2005 est.) 0.92% (2005 est.) 0-14 years: 20.6% (male 31,095,725/female 29,703,997) 15-64 years: 67% (male 98,914,382/female 99,324,126) 65 years and over: 12.4% (male 15,298,676/female 21,397,228) (2005 est.) definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97% male: 97% female: 97% (1999 est.)
British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%
Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914) note: up to 230,000 Brazilians of Japanese origin migrated to Japan in the 1990s to work in industries; some have returned to Brazil (2004)
English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%
Japanese
32,805,041 (July 2005 est.) 0.9% (2005 est.) 0-14 years: 17.9% (male 3,016,032/female 2,869,244) 15-64 years: 68.9% (male 11,357,425/female 11,244,356) 65 years and over: 13.2% (male 1,842,496/female 2,475,488) (2005 est.) definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97% (1986 est.) male: NA% female: NA%
127,417,244 (July 2005 est.) 0.05% (2005 est.) 0-14 years: 14.3% (male 9,328,584/female 8,866,772) 15-64 years: 66.2% (male 42,462,533/female 41,942,835) 65 years and over: 19.5% (male 10,435,284/female 14,381,236) (2005 est.) definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2002)
NA
Demographic/Sociocultural: Ethnic Groups
Languages
Population Population Growth Age Structure
Literacy Rate
Political/Legal: United States
Canada
Japan
Government Type
Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition
constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
Legal System
federal court system based on English common law; each state has its own unique legal system, of which all but one (Louisiana's) is based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations revenues: $1.862 trillion expenditures: $2.338 trillion, including capital expenditures of NA (2004 est.)
a constitutional monarchy that is also a parliamentary democracy and a federation based on English common law, except in Quebec, where civil law system based on French law prevails; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
revenues: $151 billion expenditures: $144 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (2004 est.)
revenues: $1.401 trillion expenditures: $1.748 trillion, including capital expenditures (public works only) of about $71 billion (2004 est.)
Budget
modeled after European civil law system with English-American influence; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
Technological: Telephones-Main Lines Telephones- Cellular Phones Internet Users
United States
Canada
Japan
181,599,900 (2003) 158.722 million (2003)
19,950,900 (2003) 13,221,800 (2003)
71.149 million (2002) 86,658,600 (2003)
159 million (2002)
16.11 million (2002)
57.2 million (2002)
Source: CIA World Factbook: http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blcindex.htm