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WORLD STATISTICS

Government

Tax revenue (% of GDP)

percent of GDP. Produced by IMF Government Finance Statistics.
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Indicator code
GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS
Unit
percent of GDP
Frequency
annual
Default classification
Latest available
Original producer
IMF Government Finance Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank — World Development Indicators
License
CC BY 4.0
Source record
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS

World trend

1991 – 2024

Highest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 1Lesotho35%2024
  2. 2Namibia34%2024
  3. 3Denmark33%2024
  4. 4New Zealand30%2024
  5. 5Luxembourg29%2024
  6. 6Macao SAR, China27%2024
  7. 7Greece27%2024
  8. 8Sweden27%2024
  9. 9United Kingdom27%2024
  10. 10South Africa26%2024

Lowest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 142United Arab Emirates0.65%2024
  2. 141Iraq1.34%2019
  3. 140Somalia, Fed. Rep.2.24%2024
  4. 139Bahrain2.82%2020
  5. 138Ethiopia3.40%2024
  6. 137Myanmar6.02%2019
  7. 136Congo, Rep.6.51%2021
  8. 135Equatorial Guinea6.60%2022
  9. 134India6.93%2022
  10. 133China7.02%2024

Revision history

Changes to previously published values detected during imports.

No revisions recorded since the first import.