Quarter-end general-government gross debt from the Cabinet Office and Bullion API’s ratio to nominal GDP for the same quarter and three preceding quarters. Borrowing and interest are not offered. Cached, not live.
Each figure keeps the government scope and definition its publisher uses. Scopes, periods and definitions differ between countries and aggregates, so these figures are not comparable across geographies.
| Measure | Latest cached value | Period | Government scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross debt, quarter endJapan: consolidated general-government gross debt at the end of the calendar quarter, in millions of yen, from the Cabinet Office Economic and Social Research Institute table “General Government Gross Debt” (worksheet GGD, “Total gross debt”). The source reports billion yen and Bullion API multiplies the exact decimal by 1,000. The published measure is valued at face value and includes SDRs, currency and deposits, debt securities, loans and payables; it excludes unfunded pay-as-you-go pension entitlements and certain Fiscal Investment and Loan Program liabilities. Gross, not net. | Unavailable: no cached observation | Not available | General government |
| Gross debt to GDP, quarter end (Bullion API calculation)Bullion API calculation: Japan Cabinet Office consolidated general-government gross debt at the quarter end divided by the sum of nominal, current-price GDP (Expenditure Approach, original series) in the same calendar quarter and the preceding three quarters, multiplied by 100. GDP is quarterly, not seasonally adjusted, and not annualised or converted from a seasonally adjusted annual rate. This is not a ratio published by the Cabinet Office.Bullion API calculation using Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan General Government Gross Debt and Quarterly Estimates of GDP data (https://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/sddsplus/tables/ggd.xlsx; https://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/sokuhou/sokuhou_top.html). The Cabinet Office notice (https://www.cao.go.jp/en/notice-e.html) states that numerical data and simple tables are not protected by copyright and may be used freely; the website Terms of Use govern website content and do not apply to those data. Source attribution and disclosure of this derived ratio are Bullion API policy, not conditions imposed on the numerical data. This is not a claim of rights to separate third-party copyrighted material. The Cabinet Office does not endorse this product. | Unavailable: no cached observation | Not available | General government |
Source: Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, General Government Gross Debt (https://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/sddsplus/tables/ggd.xlsx) and Quarterly Estimates of GDP (https://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/sokuhou/sokuhou_top.html). Bullion API calculates the quarterly debt-to-GDP ratio.
The Cabinet Office notice (https://www.cao.go.jp/en/notice-e.html) states that numerical data and simple tables are not protected by copyright and may be used freely; the website Terms of Use govern website content and do not apply to those data. Source attribution and disclosure of Bullion API’s derived ratio are Bullion API policy, not conditions imposed on the numerical data. This is not a claim of rights to separate third-party copyrighted material. The Cabinet Office does not endorse this product.
GET /v1/government-debt/jp returns the latest stored observation for each supported category as decimal strings, with its scope, unit, period and definition. Each endpoint is available on every plan, including the free plan for non-commercial Service use.