Germany vs Japan: Sovereign state

Germany

in 2022

Japan

in 2022

Germany rank

1st

Japan rank

1st

Sovereign state over time

Germany currently reports 1 against 1 in Japan, a difference of 0.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 207 shared years of data; in 1816 it was Germany ahead.

Germany ranks 1st and Japan ranks 1st of 194 countries.

Indicator: Sovereign state
Source: Correlates of War - State System Membership (2017) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 194 places, 40,158 data points, 1816–2022
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The country is identified as a sovereign state by Correlates of War - State System Membership dataset.