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Japan: General government revenue (% of GDP)

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

2024
37.7%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
−0.2 pointsfrom 37.9%
Average, 2015–2024
36.3%10 years
Record high and low
38.6% (2022)low 0.756% (1885)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203137.6Forecast
203037.6Forecast
202937.7Forecast
202837.8Forecast
202738.0Forecast
202638.1Forecast
202538.0Forecast
202437.7
202337.9
202238.6
202137.5
202036.6
201935.4
201835.4
201734.7
201634.7
201534.7

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

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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