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Japan: Central government debt

Millions of local currency · 1872–2024 · 139 observations · cgovdebt

2024
1,280 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+0.7%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+2.6%a year

Central government debt

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Local currency

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20241,275,434,499
20231,266,891,823
20221,256,181,243
20211,228,182,705
20201,138,968,146
20191,129,166,480
20181,095,180,262
20171,080,852,127
20161,073,665,755
20151,033,229,108

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Japan documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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