What is the difference between 上がります and　増えます


`What is the difference between 上がります and 増えます




**上がります**

上がります means that something is going up in reference to a past position. For
instance, you can use 上がります when talking about:

  * Anything measured in degrees such as temperature and altitude
  * Moving up in a ranking
  * Price

This is not an exhaustive list, but I think it covers a lot of common usage.

**増えます**

On the other hand, 増えます is specifically something increasing in
number/amount/size. Contexts where you usually see 増えます include:

  * Population
  * Weight
  * Number of comments, likes, complaints, etc.

and so on. Again, not exhaustive, but hopefully that makes sense.

**Difference**

I have no link or anything to back this up, so someone please correct if I am
mistaken, but I think the difference is whether or not 0 is absolute or
relative.

---For instance---

In the case of 増える: the population of a country, the weight of a bag of
oranges, or the number of comments all have an absolute zero - that is to say
that when they reach zero, there is nothing to measure. Therefore, we use 増える
for things that only have a positive, numeric range of possibilities.

On the other hand, in the case of 上がる: the rank of something or it's price and
the temperature are not all necessary expressed in terms of zero - price can
be negative if there is a refund (or zero if it is free for some reason), the
rank of something isn't even always a number or even decided by a number, and
temperature and altitude as we all know can go well below zero and still be
measured. Therefore, we will typically use 上がる with things that can be
measured as a negative, positive, or increase but with no quantitative base of
measurement.

