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Osaka
overall rank:
2
1998 rank:
3
country:
Japan
population:
2,593,933
snapshot: Osaka at a glance |
rank |
overall score |
72 |
2 |
average income US$ |
39,234.79 |
2 |
educational spending 1 |
516.37 |
7 |
ratio of house price to income 2 |
6.58 |
7 |
hospital beds per 1000 people |
14.4 |
5 |
pollution 3 |
39 |
5 |
vehicles per km of road |
82 |
11 |
criminal cases per 10,000 |
222.0 |
35 |
TV sets per 1,000 people |
862 |
3 |
inflation |
0.6 |
- |
GDP growth |
-2 |
34 |
unemployment rate |
4.90 |
17 |
average class size |
28.3 |
4 |
life expectancy |
77.7 |
5.0 |
commute time |
50 |
26 |
phones per 1,000 people |
610 |
6 |
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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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