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Japan: Real GDP

Millions of local currency · 1870–2025 · 156 observations · forecasts to 2031 · rGDP

2025
564 trillionlocal currency
Change on 2024
+1.2%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+0.5%a year
In US dollars, 2025
$4.66 trillionUS dollars

Real GDP

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Recent values

Millions of local currency

YearValue
2031585,400,000Forecast
2030581,800,000Forecast
2029578,300,000Forecast
2028574,700,000Forecast
2027571,200,000Forecast
2026567,600,000Forecast
2025564,300,000
2024557,700,000
2023559,200,000
2022550,100,000
2021543,800,000
2020529,500,000
2019552,500,000
2018554,700,000
2017551,200,000
2016542,100,000

Sources

  • Barro & Ursúa1870–2009
  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1870–2020
  • Asian Historical Statistics1885–1940
  • Smits, Woltjer & Ma1885–1940
  • Mitchell1885–2010
  • Andersson1885–2012
  • Maddison Project Database1885–2022
  • 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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