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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
51 Bahamas, The 17.28%
52 Mongolia 16.85%
53 Romania 16.21%
54 Malawi 15.60%
55 Andorra 15.57%
56 Papua New Guinea 15.54%
57 Brazil 15.41%
58 Colombia 15.22%
59 Thailand 15.18%
60 Spain 14.93%
61 Mexico 14.82%
62 Dominican Republic 14.70%
63 Philippines 14.37%
64 Canada 13.71%
65 Singapore 13.56%
66 Costa Rica 13.46%
67 Korea, Rep. 13.29%
68 Belarus 13.04%
69 Tanzania 12.74%
70 Uganda 12.63%
71 Malaysia 12.43%
72 Guatemala 11.63%
73 Paraguay 11.33%
74 Lebanon 11.14%
75 Madagascar 10.94%
76 Germany 10.89%
77 Russian Federation 10.87%
78 United States 10.77%
79 Tajikistan 10.71%
80 Argentina 10.43%
81 Switzerland 9.45%
82 Guinea-Bissau 8.30%
83 Saudi Arabia 8.09%
84 Angola 7.59%
85 Panama 7.18%
86 China 7.02%
87 Ethiopia 3.40%
88 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 2.24%
89 United Arab Emirates 0.65%
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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