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How many times the standard annual budget a prefecture’s outstanding borrowing equals. Higher means debt repayment weighs more heavily on future budgets.
Source: Statistics Bureau, MIC — Social Indicators by Prefecture (D: Administrative Base)
▲ The top 5 prefectures are tinted sky, ▼ the bottom 5 amber — just enough colour to follow the two ends of the “desirable direction.”
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