The Cabinet Office clarified the extent to which the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism improperly processed data for the country's basic statistics in line with the past revisions to the growth rate of GDP (gross domestic product). did.
It means that the nominal GDP from fiscal 2018 to 2021 was reduced by up to 0.1 points from the original.
In addition to the GDP data released on the 15th, the Cabinet Office estimated the extent to which the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism illegally processed the "Construction Orders Statistics", which is the country's core statistics. showed.
According to this, the nominal GDP growth rate was less than 0.1 percentage points each in fiscal 2018 and 2019, and 0.1 percentage points each in fiscal 2020 and 2021.
For this reason, the Cabinet Office retroactively corrected the GDP data.
At a press conference after the cabinet meeting on the 15th, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Saito said, "I would like to once again deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused to the people. I would like to proceed with statistical reform while cooperating well with the government as a whole."