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Papua New Guinea
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#56out of 89 countries
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Historical trend

24.721.518.315.111.9199020072024Papua New Guinea · 2024: 15.54%Papua New Guinea

Analytical takeaways

  • Papua New Guinea records 15.54% for Tax revenue (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #56 globally out of 89 countries.
  • Tax revenue (% of GDP) declined from 20.07% in 1990 to 15.54% in 2024, a decrease of 4.53%.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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