Japan Government Expense
Japan government expense data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 20.06%.
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Interpretation
Japan recorded 20.06% for Government Expense in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 0.79 percentage points, from 20.85% to 20.06%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (17.97%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 15.72% in 2018 and the high was 22.99% in 2020.