Japan Government Budget Balance (% of GDP)
The yearly gap between government spending and revenue.
−0.7%
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1980 to 2025
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook (GGXCNL_NGDP) · net lending/borrowing, % of GDP, annual, actual years only. The IMF's figures for the years after the one shown are projections, which this site does not publish, so the year under the figure is the most recent actual available, not a sign the feed has broken.
Japan Government Budget Balance (% of GDP) in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Japan, the government budget balance rose by 0.9pp in 2025, from −1.7% in 2024.
It is the highest reading since 1992.
Over the past five years it has ranged from −9.0% in 2020 to −0.7% in 2025.
Its average since 1980 is −4.1%, and the latest reading is above that.
Japan is 9th of 54 countries in our Government Budget Balance by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- IMF
- Series
- World
- Frequency
- Annual
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Not applicable, annual data
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Negative means a deficit.
Data refreshed 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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