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Japan: Nominal GDP

Millions of local currency · 1868–2025 · 158 observations · forecasts to 2031 · nGDP

2025
636 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+4.7%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.7%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$4.25 trillionUS dollars

Nominal GDP

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031753,500,000Forecast
2030733,600,000Forecast
2029713,100,000Forecast
2028693,800,000Forecast
2027675,300,000Forecast
2026653,500,000Forecast
2025636,300,000
2024608,000,000
2023593,000,000
2022561,800,000
2021553,200,000
2020539,600,000
2019557,900,000
2018556,600,000
2017553,100,000
2016544,400,000

Sources

  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1868–2013
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1875–2020
  • Diebolt1878–1940
  • Smits, Woltjer & Ma1885–1940
  • Jones & Obstfeld1885–1944
  • Asian Historical Statistics1885–1971
  • Mitchell1885–2010
  • Andersson1885–2012
  • Bordo1886–1997
  • Piketty & Zucman1950–2010
  • Penn World Table1950–2019
  • IMF Global Debt Database1950–2024
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • FAO1970–2023
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1987–2022
  • 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

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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