The reading right now

As of January 2022, Government expenditure for Japan stood at 21.6%. That is up 0.32 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 20.5%, ranging from a low of 19.4% in January 2017 to a high of 21.6% in January 2022. The current reading sits 1.4 percentage points above its trailing ten-year mean of 20.2%.

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