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Japan: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1875–2024 · 147 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2024
40.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−1.6 pointsfrom 41.7%
Average, 2015–2024
40.5%10 years
Record high and low
45.6% (2020)low 0.833% (1892)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203141.5Forecast
203041.2Forecast
202940.8Forecast
202840.6Forecast
202740.2Forecast
202639.9Forecast
202540.3Forecast
202440.1
202341.7
202242.8
202143.6
202045.6
201938.4
201837.9
201737.8
201638.3
201538.4

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1875–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1994–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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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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