Trade Openness / Japan
Japan Trade Openness
Japan trade openness data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 46.41%.
COUNTRY: Japan
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-12 04:00:58
GM ECONOMY RATING
Japan · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
A
81 / 100
Strong stability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
15.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 76% of weighted inputs available.
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Japan · trade openness data as percent of GDP.
Latest
46.41%
Previous
45.15%
Range avg.
37.94%
Rank
59
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CountryJapan
IndicatorTrade Openness
46.41%2024 · Rank 59
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Japan recorded 46.41% for Trade Openness in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2023, the indicator increased by 1.26 percentage points, from 45.15% to 46.41%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (37.94%).
Across the five latest available observations (2020–2024), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 31.31% in 2016 and the high was 46.81% in 2022.