In the comparison with the first three months of 2020, Japan’s GDP decreased 1.9 percent.
In the first trimester of this year, the trimestral decrease of Japan’s economy was 1.4 percent of household consumption, compared to a 2.2-percent expansion in the three previous months.
Meanwhile, government consumption from January to March dropped 1.8 percent, in contrast to a 1.8-percent increase in the three previous months.
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