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T H E C I T I E S
Tokyo
overall rank:
4
1998 rank:
1
country:
Japan
population:
11,937,433
snapshot: Tokyo at a glance |
rank |
overall score |
68 |
4 |
average income US$ |
44,921.58 |
1 |
educational spending 1 |
559.43 |
6 |
ratio of house price to income 2 |
10.06 |
12 |
hospital beds per 1000 people |
13.2 |
6 |
pollution 3 |
45 |
6 |
vehicles per km of road |
141 |
18 |
criminal cases per 10,000 |
199.7 |
34 |
TV sets per 1,000 people |
976 |
2 |
inflation |
0.3 |
- |
GDP growth |
-2 |
34 |
unemployment rate |
5.60 |
22 |
average class size |
30.6 |
8 |
life expectancy |
79.9 |
2.0 |
commute time |
71 |
37 |
phones per 1,000 people |
690 |
2 |
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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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