Japan GDP Growth Rate
How much the economy grew or shrank compared with the previous three months, in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.
0.4%
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Q2 1994 to Q2 2026
Source: Calculated from FRED series JPNRGDPEXP (Cabinet Office of Japan), quarter-on-quarter, seasonally adjusted.
Japan GDP Growth Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Japan, the GDP growth rate rose by 0.2pp over the year to Q2 2026, from 0.1% in Q2 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −1.3% in Q3 2023 to 1.2% in Q4 2021.
Its average since Q2 1994 is 0.2%, and the latest reading is above that.
Japan is 29th of 45 countries in our GDP Growth Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- Cabinet Office via FRED
- Series
- JPNRGDPEXP
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Q2 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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