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Spain vs Japan

Digital government compared, on the UN’s 2024 index and the figures behind it.

Japan leads on 4 of 5 measures, and the overall scores are 0.015 apart. Measured against what their incomes predict, Japan does more with what it has (+0.094, against +0.071 for Spain).

E-Government Index

Spain 0.921

Japan 0.935

Online services

Spain 0.905

Japan 0.943

Human capital

Spain 0.896

Japan 0.912

Telecoms

Spain 0.960

Japan 0.951

E-participation

Spain 0.808

Japan 0.986

SpainJapanEach track runs from 0 to 1. The higher score in each row is in bold.
Spain and Japan: context figures
The contextSpainJapan
Income per person (PPP)$52,780$50,210
Population48.4 million125 million
Using the internet95%85%
Score vs what income predicts+0.071+0.094

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Sources: UN E-Government Survey 2024, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; income per person (GDP, PPP) and population from the World Bank World Development Indicators, via the Quality of Government Standard Dataset, January 2025.