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Mandatory spending ratio ranking

Prefectures · lowest first · FY2024 (47)

Personnel costs, social assistance and debt service — spending that is hard to cut — as a share of total spending.

All municipalitiesCitiesTokyo wardsTownsVillagesPrefectures
Fiscal strengthCurrent balanceDebt serviceFuture burdenDebt per residentReserves per residentNet debtAdjustment fundOwn-source revenueTaxes per residentSpending per residentMandatory spendingInvestmentWelfare per residentChild welfareEducation per residentHometown taxStaff per 1,000PopulationPopulation change
#MunicipalityPrefecturePopulationMandatory spending
1 Ishikawa Prefecture Ishikawa 1,098,121 22.1%
2 Tokyo Tokyo 14,002,534 26.8%
3 Fukushima Prefecture Fukushima 1,771,314 31.8%
4 Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto 2,472,013 34.2%
5 Osaka Prefecture Osaka 8,771,961 34.5%
6 Miyagi Prefecture Miyagi 2,224,980 34.8%
7 Fukuoka Prefecture Fukuoka 5,086,957 35.0%
8 Kumamoto Prefecture Kumamoto 1,716,360 35.4%
9 Wakayama Prefecture Wakayama 901,193 35.6%
10 Miyazaki Prefecture Miyazaki 1,048,347 35.9%
11 Hokkaido Hokkaido 5,044,825 35.9%
12 Hyogo Prefecture Hyogo 5,393,607 35.9%
13 Yamanashi Prefecture Yamanashi 801,056 36.5%
14 Niigata Prefecture Niigata 2,110,754 36.9%
15 Okinawa Prefecture Okinawa 1,484,081 36.9%
16 Yamagata Prefecture Yamagata 1,012,355 37.1%
17 Iwate Prefecture Iwate 1,153,900 37.1%
18 Tochigi Prefecture Tochigi 1,904,173 37.2%
19 Oita Prefecture Oita 1,102,102 37.4%
20 Tokushima Prefecture Tokushima 700,409 37.6%
21 Nagano Prefecture Nagano 2,012,399 37.9%
22 Aichi Prefecture Aichi 7,483,755 38.0%
23 Akita Prefecture Akita 907,593 38.2%
24 Ehime Prefecture Ehime 1,296,359 38.3%
25 Yamaguchi Prefecture Yamaguchi 1,292,956 38.4%
26 Hiroshima Prefecture Hiroshima 2,728,771 38.5%
27 Toyama Prefecture Toyama 1,008,536 38.5%
28 Saga Prefecture Saga 794,252 38.9%
29 Chiba Prefecture Chiba 6,311,579 39.0%
30 Kanagawa Prefecture Kanagawa 9,202,559 39.1%
31 Tottori Prefecture Tottori 534,003 39.4%
32 Shimane Prefecture Shimane 642,590 39.6%
33 Gunma Prefecture Gunma 1,907,976 39.7%
34 Aomori Prefecture Aomori 1,185,767 40.0%
35 Shizuoka Prefecture Shizuoka 3,575,704 40.2%
36 Fukui Prefecture Fukui 746,690 40.9%
37 Gifu Prefecture Gifu 1,951,292 41.1%
38 Ibaraki Prefecture Ibaraki 2,848,597 41.3%
39 Kagawa Prefecture Kagawa 939,965 41.4%
40 Okayama Prefecture Okayama 1,835,478 41.4%
41 Shiga Prefecture Shiga 1,405,246 41.7%
42 Nara Prefecture Nara 1,303,867 42.2%
43 Nagasaki Prefecture Nagasaki 1,274,371 42.7%
44 Kochi Prefecture Kochi 664,863 42.8%
45 Kagoshima Prefecture Kagoshima 1,558,920 43.3%
46 Saitama Prefecture Saitama 7,374,294 44.0%
47 Mie Prefecture Mie 1,741,266 44.1%

Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications settlement data. Municipalities without a value (such as the fiscal strength index of Tokyo's special wards) are excluded.