日本國債平均每人欠債８０６万円

Last month the Asahi News on-line report the following:

国の借金、１０２５兆円に　国民１人あたり８０６万円

2014年5月9日19時11分

　財務省は９日、２０１３年度末の国の借金残高が前年度末より３３兆３５５７億円多い１０２４兆９５６８億円になり、過去最大を更新したと発表した。国民１人あたり約８０６万円の借金を抱える計算になる。

　増え続ける社会保障の財源不足を補うことに加え、前年度に組んだ約１０兆円の大型経済対策をまかなうため借金がふくらんだ。

　借金の内訳は、政府が投資家から借りる「国債」が８５３兆７６３６億円と前年度末に比べ３２・３兆円増えた。金融機関からの「借入金」が同０・６兆円多い５５兆５０４７億円、一時的な借り入れの「政府短期証券」は同０・４兆円増の１１５兆６８８４億円だった。

(試譯文)

   On the 9^th(May) the Ministry of Finance announced that the debt balance of the country at the end of the 2013 fiscal year changed to 1,024,956,800 million yen with 33,355,700 million yen more than the end of last fiscal year, being the highest updating ever. In calculation, each citizen would embrace about 8,060,000 yen in debt.

   In addition to compensating the funding shortage in social security which continued to increase, the debt to cover the large-sized economic stimulus package of about 10 trillion yen established in the last fiscal year had increased.

   The debt swelled because the government’s borrowing from investors was 853,763,600 million yen and compared with the end of last fiscal year it had increased by 32,300 million yen. The "debt" from financial institutions was 55,504,700 million yen with an increase of 600,000 million yen. The temporary borrowing the "national bond financing bill” debt was 115,688,400 million yen, having an increase of the 400,000 million yen.

8,060,000 yen is a large amount of money. I hope the Japanese government could reduce its dependence on borrowing.