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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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