The data displays the national debt of Japan from 2012 to 2016, with projections up until 2022. The amount of Japan's national debt in 2016 amounted to about 11.57 trillion USD. In a ranking of debt to GDP per country, Japan is thus currently ranked first.
Japan's economic power
With one of the biggest gross domestic products (GDP), Japan is among the biggest economies in the world. However, ever since the global financial crisis, Japan's GDP - like many others - has been slightly unstable; Japan even reported a negative GDP growth in comparison to the previous year in 2011 and in 2014.
