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Japan: Imports

Millions of local currency · 1860–2025 · 166 observations · forecasts to 2031 · imports

2025
149 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.6%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+4.4%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$993 billionUS dollars

Imports

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031195,118,192Forecast
2030187,349,536Forecast
2029179,707,120Forecast
2028172,458,656Forecast
2027165,621,216Forecast
2026163,186,384Forecast
2025148,620,496
2024146,276,608
2023138,827,808
2022141,620,704
2021103,032,496
202085,274,896
201999,045,200
2018101,835,400
201793,092,096
201683,028,000

Sources

  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1860–1938
  • Mitchell1860–2010
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1860–2013
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • Asian Historical Statistics1873–1970
  • UN Comtrade1900–1960
  • Ellison, Lee & O'Rourke1925–1936
  • Albers1925–1936
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1996
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • World Development Indicators1970–2024
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1994–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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