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Japan: General government debt

Millions of local currency · 1875–2024 · 149 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govdebt

2024
1,360 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2023
+0.3%year on year
Average growth, 2014–2024
+2.4%a year

General government debt

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
20311,516,918,727Forecast
20301,485,140,543Forecast
20291,456,835,795Forecast
20281,432,350,345Forecast
20271,411,012,834Forecast
20261,394,882,123Forecast
20251,370,160,581Forecast
20241,361,459,493
20231,357,133,367
20221,332,586,027
20211,277,243,688
20201,267,561,896
20191,179,850,004
20181,159,482,543
20171,147,819,795
20161,123,867,860
20151,098,527,788

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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