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Tax revenue (% of GDP)

For 2024, Tax revenue (% of GDP) is led by Lesotho at 35.42%. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

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.

Countries ranked 89
Snapshot year 2024
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0.08.917.726.635.4LesothoLesotho: 35.42%35.4NamibiaNamibia: 33.87%33.9DenmarkDenmark: 33.36%33.4New ZealandNew Zealand: 29.52%29.5LuxembourgLuxembourg: 28.64%28.6Macao SAR, ChinaMacao SAR, China: 27.42%27.4GreeceGreece: 27.38%27.4SwedenSweden: 27.23%27.2United KingdomUnited Kingdom: 26.89%26.9South AfricaSouth Africa: 25.88%25.9AustriaAustria: 25.78%25.8ItalyItaly: 25.60%25.6
Rank Country Value
1 Lesotho 35.42%
2 Namibia 33.87%
3 Denmark 33.36%
4 New Zealand 29.52%
5 Luxembourg 28.64%
6 Macao SAR, China 27.42%
7 Greece 27.38%
8 Sweden 27.23%
9 United Kingdom 26.89%
10 South Africa 25.88%
11 Austria 25.78%
12 Italy 25.60%
13 Finland 25.33%
14 Netherlands 25.28%
15 Norway 24.54%
16 Georgia 24.26%
17 Malta 24.08%
18 Fiji 23.95%
19 Cyprus 23.94%
20 Solomon Islands 23.27%
21 Israel 23.24%
22 Belgium 22.96%
23 France 22.78%
24 Hungary 22.74%
25 Estonia 22.67%
26 Armenia 22.37%
27 Portugal 22.35%
28 Lithuania 21.87%
29 Mozambique 21.85%
30 El Salvador 21.80%
31 Naoero 21.42%
32 Ukraine 21.02%
33 Slovenia 20.99%
34 Bulgaria 20.67%
35 Mauritius 20.53%
36 Bosnia and Herzegovina 20.22%
37 Nicaragua 20.09%
38 Kyrgyz Republic 19.62%
39 Slovak Republic 19.14%
40 Zambia 18.83%
41 North Macedonia 18.76%
42 Burkina Faso 18.68%
43 Czechia 18.65%
44 Chile 18.26%
45 Albania 18.02%
46 Ireland 17.94%
47 Uruguay 17.86%
48 Latvia 17.65%
49 Turkiye 17.62%
50 Azerbaijan 17.30%
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • Lesotho sits at the top of the Tax revenue (% of GDP) distribution in 2024 at 35.42%, with a lead of 1.55% over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Albania at 18.02%, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits United Arab Emirates (0.65%), and the page currently covers 89 countries.

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