Of course, it’s a much bigger country, India and China are as well, it’s about population growth, for example, Japan in 1800 had 30 million people, by 1870, 35 million, by 1913 51 million, the UK in the same window went from 10 million to 45 million, not including the millions who emigrated, 10 to 20 million are believed to have during this period. In terms of growth, Japan increased by 70 percent, UK by 400 per cent, 500 to 600 percent if you include emigration.

Hope that makes sense!