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Japan’s national debt up to 836 trillion yen at end of June
Japan’s national debt was up to 836,521 trillion yen at the end of June, The Ministry of Finance announced on Friday, the Sankei Shimbun reports.
The national debt is now, at 2,14 trillion yen higher than at the end of March, at its highest ever, but because of increased GDP, the debt to GDP ratio still decreased somewhat - 150.0% of the GDP (GDP as of March 2007), compared to the 2006 estmitate 175.5%.
If split up on the entire population of Japan (127,770,000 as of August 1), the national debt equals 6,66 million yen per person.
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