Japan | Interest payments (% of expense)
Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents. Limitations and exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries. Statistical concept and methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
State of Japan
Records
63
Source
Japan | Interest payments (% of expense)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
4.62552991 1972
4.85622515 1973
4.7267525 1974
5.76524059 1975
7.52787325 1976
9.11672718 1977
10.23292731 1978
11.82868065 1979
14.1217601 1980
15.84490612 1981
16.73978932 1982
18.9955579 1983
20.42214478 1984
21.18124333 1985
21.44907673 1986
21.43558416 1987
21.0973186 1988
19.64508636 1989
20.48002255 1990
1991
1992
1993
15.19765865 1994
14.73416268 1995
14.50458147 1996
14.6051974 1997
10.72408518 1998
12.35253835 1999
11.88765998 2000
11.36451327 2001
10.63103929 2002
10.12570222 2003
9.92448678 2004
9.43515808 2005
10.29229255 2006
11.49842624 2007
10.86296004 2008
9.25272392 2009
9.68870174 2010
9.2221958 2011
9.34055569 2012
9.2601342 2013
9.4573504 2014
9.46950825 2015
9.33074787 2016
9.08941715 2017
8.93650414 2018
8.50195404 2019
5.92832802 2020
6.16283129 2021
2022
Japan | Interest payments (% of expense)
Interest payments include interest payments on government debt--including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and other debt instruments--to domestic and foreign residents. Limitations and exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries. Statistical concept and methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
State of Japan
Records
63
Source