In the fiscal year 2023, the initial budget for national debt service expenditure of the national government in Japan amounted to approximately 25.25 trillion Japanese yen, the highest amount of the past decade. Within the observed period, the budget has increased gradually, with the the revised final budget number of each fiscal year usually trending around three to five percent above the initially announced number.
National debt service expenditures of the government's general account budget in Japan from fiscal year 2014 to 2023
(in trillion Japanese yen)
fiscal years 2014 to 2023; 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. Excluding the Temporal and Special Measures.
According to the source, 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 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018 comes from previous reporting.
100 Japanese yen equal 0.67 U.S. dollars or 0.62 euros as of December 2023.
Values have been rounded.
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Statistics Bureau of Japan. (September 29, 2023). National debt service expenditures of the government's general account budget in Japan from fiscal year 2014 to 2023 (in trillion Japanese yen) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 02, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/630367/japan-general-account-budget-debt-service-expenditures/
Statistics Bureau of Japan. "National debt service expenditures of the government's general account budget in Japan from fiscal year 2014 to 2023 (in trillion Japanese yen)." Chart. September 29, 2023. Statista. Accessed October 02, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/630367/japan-general-account-budget-debt-service-expenditures/
Statistics Bureau of Japan. (2023). National debt service expenditures of the government's general account budget in Japan from fiscal year 2014 to 2023 (in trillion Japanese yen). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: October 02, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/630367/japan-general-account-budget-debt-service-expenditures/
Statistics Bureau of Japan. "National Debt Service Expenditures of The Government's General Account Budget in Japan from Fiscal Year 2014 to 2023 (in Trillion Japanese Yen)." Statista, Statista Inc., 29 Sep 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/630367/japan-general-account-budget-debt-service-expenditures/
Statistics Bureau of Japan, National debt service expenditures of the government's general account budget in Japan from fiscal year 2014 to 2023 (in trillion Japanese yen) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/630367/japan-general-account-budget-debt-service-expenditures/ (last visited October 02, 2024)
National debt service expenditures of the government's general account budget in Japan from fiscal year 2014 to 2023 (in trillion Japanese yen) [Graph], Statistics Bureau of Japan, September 29, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/630367/japan-general-account-budget-debt-service-expenditures/