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Japan’s GDP up 4.8% quarterly, 2.2% yearly

February 15, 2007
By Ken Worsley


Today, the Cabinet Office released its preliminary GDP data for Japan’s fourth quarter (October-December) of 2006. Headlines gushed forth from the financial news websites, with Bloomberg’s Japan’s Economy Grows 4.8%, Fastest in Almost 3 Years, leading the charge.

The headline doesn’t mention that the 4.8% growth is quarter-on-quarter, and that the Japanese economy did not exactly have a stellar third quarter. A bit into the article, Bloomberg points out that the Cabinet Office revised its third-quarter growth statistics from 0.8 percent to 0.3 percent, a .5% downward revision that certainly makes the fourth quarter figures look better - and should lead us to not be overly surprised if we hear a .5% downward revision on the fourth quarter figures when the first quarter 2007 data is released in May.

It also bears mentioning that the yearly statistics show a 2.2% increase over the fourth quarter in 2005.

Document: Gross Domestic Product: Fourth Quarter 2006 (First Preliminary) - .pdf file from the Cabinet Office, in English.

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2 Responses to “Japan’s GDP up 4.8% quarterly, 2.2% yearly”

  1. Bank of Japan to convene meetings tomorrow: Rate hike in the cards? It’s fundamentally about the pressure… : Japan Economy News & Blog on December 2nd, 2007 10:15 pm

    […] And will the BOJ be put under the same political pressure as last time? We know that last week a 4.8% quarterly gain in GDP was announced, along with a 2.2% annual gain, although the accuracy of those figures has been called into […]

  2. Japan’s fourth quarter capital spending up 16.8%: Ministry of Finance : Japan Economy News & Blog on December 2nd, 2007 10:17 pm

    […] Office may revise its GDP figure for the same quarter in an upward direction. On February 15, the Cabinet Office announced that Japan’s GDP has risen 1.2% in real terms (4.8% annualized) in th…. The Cabinet Office’s revised GDP figures are due on March […]

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