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Lesotho
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#1out of 89 countries
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Historical trend

40.035.731.527.222.9198220032024Lesotho · 2024: 35.42%Lesotho

Analytical takeaways

  • Lesotho records 35.42% for Tax revenue (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #1 globally out of 89 countries.
  • Tax revenue (% of GDP) increased from 28.99% in 1982 to 35.42% in 2024, a gain of 6.43%.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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