The Director-General for Policy Planning, acting as a liaison officer, is responsible for the comprehensive coordination of the international statistical affairs of the entire government.
The Summary of the Statistical System and Surveys of the Japanese Government was compiled with the assistance of various ministries for the purpose of helping foreign government officials who come to Japan understand the basis of the statistical system and surveys of Japan.
The international comparison program (ICP) is an international project that was launched to make a substantial comparison of the gross domestic products (GDP) of various countries by calculating the purchasing power parities of the currencies of these countries.
The data shown in this page correspond to the data described on the International Monetary Fund's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB). For a fuller explanation of the DSBB and the statistical standards to which Japan has committed, please refer to this page
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Statistical Notes of Japan is a series of semi-annual publications that provides an outline of statistical activities in Japan by highlighting recent topics of common interest among statisticians all over the world.
A subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), which is one of the United Nations regional economic commissions.
