Total central bank assets (USD billion) - Japan - BIS - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Central bank total assets (Bank for International Settlements)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In Japan, the total assets held by the central bank were 4,814.17 USD billion in July 2025, compared to 4,970.76 in June 2025. This represents a decrease of 3.15 percent.
Sample. There are 823 observations overall in the monthly time series presented in the plot above. The time period covered by the series stretches from January 1957 to July 2025.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: assets had a mean of 1,165.54 billion US dollars; they reached their lowest level of 2.26 in May 1957; they reached a maximum of 6,815.86 in December 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - US dollar billion |
|---|---|
| 2025-05-31 | 5104.52 |
| 2025-06-30 | 4970.76 |
| 2025-07-31 | 4814.17 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total central bank assets in USD, adjusted to be comparable across time and countries |
| Country | Japan |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Assets (balance-sheet item) |
| Deflation method | Nominal |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Rescaling | None |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | US dollar billion |
| Source | Bank for International Settlements |
| Source type | International organization |
| Data licence | Unrestricted use subject to certain conditions |
| Measure type | Level (adjusted for breaks) |
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