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JAPAN’s Economic Outlook for Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023 (August 2022)
経済研究部 経済調査部長 斎藤 太郎
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1. April–June 2022 grew at an annual rate of 2.2% quarter-on-quarter
In the April–June quarter of 2022, real GDP finally recovered to its pre-COVID-19 levels, 0.2% higher than the October–December quarter of 2019. By demand category, private consumption exceeded that in the pre-COVID-19 period by 1.3%, while government consumption far exceeded that in the pre-COVID-19 period, reflecting the cost of the health-care response and vaccination efforts. Meanwhile, housing investment, capital expenditure, and public investment remain below pre-COVID-19 levels. Exports are 2.3% higher, but the export of services remains well below the pre-COVID-19 levels; goods exports continue to rise on the back of a recovery in overseas economies and a weak yen, while inbound demand remains severely depressed.
In the October–December of 2019 quarter, Japan experienced a sharp contraction of 11.3% on an annualized basis due to the impact of a hike in the consumption tax rate and a significant drop in the level of economic activity ahead of the impact of COVID-19 becoming apparent. Compared to the most recent peak in the April–June quarter of 2019, real GDP is down 2.7%, and private consumption is down 1.8% in the April–June quarter of 2022. It appears that there is a long way to go before the economy normalizes.
After a sharp slowdown in 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19, the global economy recorded high growth in 2021, partly in reaction. Nevertheless, a clear deceleration trend has become apparent recently.
Real GDP in the United States, which recovered quickly from the COVID-19 crisis, contracted sequentially in the April–June quarter following the January–March quarter of 2022. This marked the second consecutive quarter of negative growth; a pattern generally considered a technical recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research is tasked with determining the formal business cycle. However, the economic indicators it considers important, such as employment and consumer spending, have generally remained strong and, while the definition of a technical recession has been met, this does not necessarily imply an actual recession.
Looking at the business-cycle relationship between Japan and the United States since 1970, there have been cases where Japan was the only one of the two to fall into recession; for example, in the mid-1980s, when the yen was strong, and when the consumption tax rate was raised in 1997. However, whenever the United States has entered a recession, Japan has also been in a recession. Whether the United States avoids a recession now will likely have a major impact on the future of the Japanese economy.
The euro area economy is expected to fall into recession in late 2022 and early 2023 due to monetary tightening to curb inflation and the significant negative impact of the cuts in the supply of Russian gas on economic activity. Moreover, the outlook for China’s economy, which, as a result of the country’s lockdown, had a year-on-year growth rate close to 0% in the April–June quarter of 2022, is likely to remain at high risk of a downturn as a result of the government’s zero-COVID-19 policy.
Exports fell sharply in FY 2020, down 10.0% from the previous year, but rebounded strongly in FY 2021, up 12.5%. Despite a boost from the weaker yen, FY 2022’s year-on-year growth is expected to slow significantly to 1.5% due to a slowdown in overseas economies, while FY 2023’s growth is expected to remain low at 1.8%.
Year-on-year consumer prices (total CPI excluding fresh foods, hereafter core CPI) have been in the low 2% range since April 2022, but the “total excluding imputed rent for owner-occupied housing” that households are actually facing is higher, at about 3%. High growth in fresh-food prices is not included in the core CPI, and low growth in imputed rent for owner-occupied homes (zero percent) is included but does not actually contribute to the gap between total and core CPI. We now expect FY 2022’s year-on-year core CPI to be 2.4% and total excluding imputed rent, to be 3.0%.
In FY 2022, the increased burden of high prices will weigh on consumer spending. However, households are still accumulating excessive savings due to the repeated restrictions on behavior imposed because of the COVID-19 crisis. If we calculate as excess savings the portion of the increase in savings in 2020 and 2021 (compared with that in 2019) caused by an increase in the savings rate, then the excess savings of working families would be 393,000 yen in 2020 and 301,000 yen in 2021, for a total of 694,000 yen.
1 Savings rate for April-June 2022 estimated by NLI Research Institute based on actual figures for household consumption expenditures and employee compensation.
2. Real growth expected to be 1.7% in FY 2022 and 1.6% in FY 2023
With priority preventative measures ending on March 21, 2022, retail and entertainment turnout, which is closely linked to service consumption, experienced a clear rebound to a level above those in the pre-COVID-19 period during Golden Week in May.
According to the Family Income and Expenditure Survey of the Statistics Bureau in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the consumption of face-to-face services (general dining out, transportation, accommodation, package tours, admission, viewing, and games) plunged from the previous month by 15.5% in January and 9.5% in February 2022 in response to the application of priority preventative measures, but surged by 60.0% in the four months from March to June. The index, which was 100 before the COVID-19 crisis (2019 average), recovered to 85.5 in June, its highest level since the pandemic began.
Nominal wages per capita fell sharply in FY 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19 and have continued to rise since the start of FY 2021. However, real wages have experienced negative growth since April 2022 due to a significant increase in the rate of consumer price inflation. The spring wage increase rate in 2022 improved by 0.34 percentage points from the previous year (1.86%) to 2.20% (the status of requests and settlements for spring wage increases by major private companies in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare). The rate of wage increases was higher than the previous year for the first time in four years, but the base increase, excluding regular pay increases of about 1.7 ~ 1.8%, remains in the 0% range. Since consumer prices in FY 2022 are expected to remain in the 2% range, real wage growth is likely to remain in the negative range.
The 2023 spring wage increase is expected to be 2.40%, an improvement of 0.20 percentage points from the previous year. Although corporate earnings growth in FY 2022 will slow significantly from FY 2021 due to rising raw material prices and sluggish exports due to a slowdown in overseas economies, a certain level of price growth in the previous year will help wage increases.
At the same time, however, the pace of price increases is expected to accelerate, so real employee pay is expected to decline from 2.1% in FY 2021 to 0.2% in FY 2022, the first decline in three years. With nominal employee pay growing at a brisk 2.5% year on year, FY 2023’s real employee pay will shift to an increase of 1.8% as the pace of price increases slows.
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