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Japan: Government consumption

Millions of local currency · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2026 · gcons

2025
129 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+3.0%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.0%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$860 billionUS dollars

Government consumption

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2026131,200,000Forecast
2025128,700,000
2024125,000,000
2023122,900,000
2022120,900,000
2021117,500,000
2020113,200,000
2019111,300,000
2018108,900,000
2017107,400,000
2016107,000,000

Sources

  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • World Development Indicators1970–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1994–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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