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Malaysia
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#71out of 89 countries
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Historical trend

19.817.515.313.110.9199620102024Malaysia · 2024: 12.43%Malaysia

Analytical takeaways

  • Malaysia records 12.43% for Tax revenue (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #71 globally out of 89 countries.
  • Tax revenue (% of GDP) declined from 19.38% in 1996 to 12.43% in 2024, a decrease of 6.95%.
  • 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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