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Japan: General government expenditure (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1875–2025 · 148 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govexp_GDP

2025
37.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom 38.4%
Average, 2016–2025
39.3%10 years
Record high and low
44.7% (2020)low 0.715% (1892)

General government expenditure (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203140.2Forecast
203039.8Forecast
202939.4Forecast
202839.2Forecast
202738.7Forecast
202639.2Forecast
202537.9
202438.4
202338.8
202241.3
202142.4
202044.7
201937.5
201837.0
201737.0
201637.6

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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