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Japan: General government expenditure

Millions of local currency · 1875–2025 · 148 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp

2025
252 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+3.2%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.0%a year

General government expenditure

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031315,945,556Forecast
2030304,999,749Forecast
2029293,608,502Forecast
2028283,636,106Forecast
2027272,765,245Forecast
2026267,321,841Forecast
2025251,507,370
2024243,692,811
2023239,074,056
2022241,312,823
2021243,414,771
2020247,428,172
2019214,548,151
2018210,864,994
2017209,092,297
2016208,867,154

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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