Japan's GDP per capita (current LCU) was 5.38 million in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 24.63% from 4.32 million in 2015 (2.23% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 5.38 million | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 4.39 million | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 4.32 million | 2015 |
| Highest | 5.38 million | 2025 |
| Lowest | 186,989 | 1960 |
| Average since 2016 | 4.69 million | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 186,989 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Japan's GDP per capita (current LCU) rose 264,617 on 2024 (from 5.12 million to 5.38 million).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +31,609 and a typical year strayed about 106,696 from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 272,864 in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 264,958 in 2009. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 100,910 a year. A straight line explains 79% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 5.39 million for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 352,075, against 473,301 for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Japan had the 22nd highest value of the 186 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
Closest to Japan in the 2025 ranking
- Kazakhstan — 18th of 186: 7.66 million
- Iraq — 19th of 186: 7.03 million
- Guyana — 20th of 186: 6.76 million
- Gabon — 22nd of 186: 4.81 million
- Uganda — 23rd of 186: 4.43 million
- Equatorial Guinea — 24th of 186: 3.85 million
What this measures
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This series is expressed in local currency units.
All 66 values
| Year | GDP per capita (current LCU) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,380,359 |
| 2024 | 5,115,742 |
| 2023 | 4,947,395 |
| 2022 | 4,674,531 |
| 2021 | 4,563,666 |
| 2020 | 4,388,326 |
| 2019 | 4,515,711 |
| 2018 | 4,488,203 |
| 2017 | 4,450,737 |
| 2016 | 4,375,103 |
| 2015 |
GDP per capita (current LCU) in nearby economies
- American Samoa — 18,018 (2022)
- Australia — 100,632 (2025)
- Brunei Darussalam — 42,150 (2025)
- Cambodia — 11.53 million (2025)
- China — 99,665 (2025)
- Fiji — 15,270 (2025)
- French Polynesia — 2.48 million (2024)
- Guam — 41,833 (2022)
- Hong Kong SAR, China — 444,302 (2025)
- Indonesia — 83.37 million (2025)
- Kiribati — 3,971 (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Japan
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$1.37 trillion (2025)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$1.25 trillion (2025)
- GDP (current US$) — US$4.44 trillion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 663.76 trillion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$4.76 trillion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 591.22 trillion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$35,951 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$38,619 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 4.79 million (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$4.72 trillion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 705.66 trillion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Japan's GDP per capita (current LCU)?
- 5.38 million in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1960?
- It is up 2,777% from 186,989 in 1960 (5.3% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 5.38 million in 2025 and the lowest 186,989 in 1960.
- How does Japan rank?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.GDP.PCAP.CN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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