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United Arab Emirates
Tax revenue (% of GDP)

Taxes are compulsory, unrequited payments, in cash or in kind, made by institutional units to government units. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Global rank#89out of 89 countries
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Historical trend

1.10.90.60.30.0199720112024United Arab Emirates · 2024: 0.65%United Arab Emirates

Analytical takeaways

  • United Arab Emirates records 0.65% for Tax revenue (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #89 globally out of 89 countries.
  • Tax revenue (% of GDP) declined from 0.99% in 1997 to 0.65% in 2024, a decrease of 0.34%.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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