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T H E C I T I E S
Fukuoka

overall rank: 1

1998 rank: 2

country: Japan

population: 1,329,503

snapshot: Fukuoka at a glance		rank
overall score	73	1
average income US$	35,043.99	3
educational spending ¹	318.01	17
ratio of house price to income ²	7.67	10
hospital beds per 1000 people	19.5	1
pollution ³	28	3
vehicles per km of road	74	9
criminal cases per 10,000	333.5	37
TV sets per 1,000 people	795	4
inflation	0.5	-
GDP growth	-2	34
unemployment rate	4.60	15
average class size	31.9	11
life expectancy	80.5	1.0
commute time	45	20
phones per 1,000 people	677	4

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notes:
All monetary values are PPP adjusted
^a estimates
^b national figure
^c officially, land cannot be bought or sold
¹ state educational spending, per capita US$
² average house price divided by average annual income
³ suspended particles, micrograms per cubic meter (µ/m³)

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