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Japan: Long-term interest rate

Percent · 1870–2025 · 156 observations · forecasts to 2026 · ltrate

2025
1.53%percent
Change on 2024
+0.6 pointsfrom 0.899%
Average, 2016–2025
0.327%10 years
Record high and low
14.8% (1961)low −0.0968% (2019)

Long-term interest rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20261.84Forecast
20251.53
20240.899
20230.559
20220.228
20210.0621
20200.00597
2019-0.0968
20180.0735
20170.055
2016-0.0468

Sources

  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • Bordo1966–1996
  • OECD Economic Outlook1966–2025
  • OECD Main Economic Indicators (archive)1972–1984
  • Bank of Japan1982–2014
  • Eurostat1986–2025
  • Clio Infra1989–2011
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1989–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1999–2017
  • 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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