Japan Household Spending

Japan's household spending rose 1.7 percent from a year earlier in February 2019, after a 2.0 percent gain in the previous month and compared to market expectations of a 2.1 percent increase. Transportation & communications led spending with a 6.7 percent rise, followed by furniture & household utensils (+5.8 percent) and housing (+4.7 percent). In contrast, spending on fuel, light & water charges declined 6.4 percent. On a monthly basis, household spending dropped by 2.0 percent, following a 0.7 percent gain in the previous month and below market consensus of a 0.5 percent drop. Household Spending in Japan averaged -0.70 percent from 2001 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 7.20 percent in March of 2014 and a record low of -10.60 percent in March of 2015.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2019-01-10	11:30 PM	Household Spending YoY	-0.6%	-0.3%	-0.1%	0.7%
2019-02-07	11:30 PM	Household Spending YoY	0.1%	-0.6%	0.8%	0.7%
2019-03-07	11:30 PM	Household Spending YoY	2%	0.1%	-0.4%	-0.5%
2019-04-04	11:30 PM	Household Spending YoY	1.7%	2%	2.1%	-0.3%
2019-05-09	11:30 PM	Household Spending YoY		1.7%
2019-06-06	11:30 PM	Household Spending YoY
2019-07-04	11:30 PM	Household Spending YoY

Japan Consumer	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Consumer Confidence	40.50	41.50	50.80	27.50	Index Points	[+]
Retail Sales MoM	0.20	-2.30	8.30	-13.70	percent	[+]
Retail Sales YoY	0.40	0.60	36.50	-14.30	percent	[+]
Household Spending	1.70	2.00	7.20	-10.60	percent	[+]
Consumer Spending	300989.90	299766.70	305974.80	150439.60	JPY Billion	[+]
Disposable Personal Income	435.99	384.01	1079.95	35.36	JPY Thousand	[+]
Personal Savings	25.80	14.00	54.30	-9.90	percent	[+]
Bank Lending Rate	1.00	1.00	9.90	0.90	percent	[+]
Households Debt To GDP	57.70	57.40	72.20	20.30	percent of GDP	[+]
Gasoline Prices	1.31	1.29	2.00	0.91	USD/Liter	[+]
Consumer Credit	332103.00	332525.00	415556.00	221292.00	JPY Billion	[+]

In Japan, household spending refers to the annual change of consumption expenditures (on food, housing, utilities, furniture, clothing, health, education, transport, communication, leisure activities, etc.) in real terms for two-or-more-person households including agricultural, forestry and fisheries households. This page provides the latest reported value for - Japan Household Spending - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Japan Household Spending - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.