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Japan: Primary income payments

176.57Bcurrent USD · 2025+143.0% since 2015

Primary income payments refer to employee compensation paid to nonresident workers and investment income (payments on direct investment, portfolio investment, other investments).This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars. Annual figures for Japan from 1996 to 2025.

19962025

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
2025176,573,455,827.544
2024166,867,968,223.992
2023152,708,485,458.51
2022113,316,474,963.717
2021107,124,904,734.503
202099,350,666,245.398
2019115,667,441,818.991
2018109,460,822,352.003
201794,304,974,817.669
201689,208,829,697.634
201572,649,527,021.359
201472,853,756,725.868
201359,918,187,339.336
201254,194,074,488.136
201150,588,348,235.948
201046,744,397,477.965
200940,624,093,899.726
200855,028,330,674.73
200759,677,071,489.067
200649,873,022,709.928
200538,752,673,410.532
200427,356,071,420.234
200324,417,577,893.248
200225,750,530,462.958
200133,707,798,521.558
200038,781,120,510.517
199936,755,474,327.926
199844,616,706,625.817
199752,756,758,362.957
199658,074,816,133.053

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Monetary Fund. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Primary income payments. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-primary-income-payments (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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