How far ahead is japan with technology compared to the US?

Answer 1

lets put it this way who creates the technology? ....... engineers. Newly revised estimates show every year the U.S. graduate 137,437 engineers while India graduates 112,000 engineers. However China is graduating the most at 351,000 engineering students every year. I wish i had the numbers for how many Japan graduates every year but the article below shows that in 2008 there was like appeal to be an engineering student in japan. The site lists the number of engineering and science undergraduates at slightly higher than 500,000. While this is much higher than those graduating in the US in engineering the estimation cannot be compared to the estimates of the U.S, India and China. this is because the estimate is based on the field scientists and engineers which is much more broad than the estimates based only on engineers. However after some research i found that in 2003 of the 40,621,000 graduates in the U.S 12 percent or 4,874,520 people graduated with degrees in science and engineering fields. Unfortunately i have no idea the actual figures are for 2010.so i am unfortunately comparing estimates from 2003 to those taken in 2008. However you can pretty much figure it out that 503,026 vs 4,874,520 is no contest.