General account social security expenditures Japan 2015-2024

Published by Statista Research Department, Sep 25, 2024

In the fiscal year 2024, the initial general account budget of the Japanese national government for social security expenditures was set at around 37.7 trillion Japanese yen. The revised budget of the previous fiscal year was 38.1 trillion yen. As Japan faces a rapidly aging society, pension and national medical expenses for the elderly in particular account for the largest share of the social security budget.

Social security expenditures of the government's general account in Japan from fiscal year 2015 to 2022 with forecasts until 2024 (in trillion Japanese yen)

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September 2024

Region

Japan

Survey time period

fiscal years 2015 to 2022; the Japanese fiscal year starts on April 1 of the stated year and ends on March 31 of the following year

Supplementary notes

*Revised budget.
**Initial budget.

Japan's national budget consists of the general account, special accounts, and the budget for government-affiliated agencies. The general account covers core national expenditures such as public works or social security.

Data from fiscal years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021 come from previous reporting.

100 Japanese yen equal 0.68 U.S. dollars or 0.62 euros as of September 2024.

Values have been rounded.

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