Japan

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - Japan Compared to Continent

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Armenia	4.48%
Azerbaijan	2.22%
Bangladesh	-8.96%
Cambodia	-11.81%
China	0.42%
Georgia	18.21%
Hong Kong	0.50%
India	5.81%
Indonesia	-3.39%
Japan	7.13%
Kazakhstan	15.78%
Kyrgyztan	7.74%
Laos	20.00%
Malaysia	5.65%
Mongolia	8.81%
Myanmar	-11.95%
Nepal	6.11%
North Korea	-66.25%
Pakistan	3.34%
Philippines	-7.31%
Singapore	-0.90%
South Korea	-0.60%
Sri Lanka	-6.72%
Taiwan	-0.87%
Tajikistan	17.02%
Thailand	-3.54%
Turkmenistan	-15.54%
Uzbekistan	36.51%
Vietnam	7.85%

Japan: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Japan does not publish official house price statistics, so land prices are taken as a proxy. Land price statistics are available from the Japan Real Estate Institute (JREI), as well as rent index. For a summary of Japan’s economic and real estate trends, see monthly JREI reports. Japan’s Statistics Bureau and the Bank of Japan have good collections of general economics data.