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Saudi Arabia
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#83out of 89 countries
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Historical trend

8.67.05.53.92.3201020172024Saudi Arabia · 2024: 8.09%Saudi Arabia

Analytical takeaways

  • Saudi Arabia records 8.09% for Tax revenue (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #83 globally out of 89 countries.
  • Tax revenue (% of GDP) increased from 2.53% in 2010 to 8.09% in 2024, a gain of 5.56%.
  • 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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