Tax revenue as a share of GDP

What central government collects in tax, against the size of the economy.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics
years covered: 1972–2024
subject: Economic

Higher means less freedom.

How this is measured

Compulsory transfers to central government, excluding social contributions and fines, over GDP. Counting a higher tax take as less economic freedom is one reading of it and not the only one — you are free to reject it, and the direction only affects how the indicator is rescaled inside an index. The map and the chart show the raw share either way. Note the measure is central government only, so federal countries look lighter-taxed than they are.

Ranked for 2024

83 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1972.

#	Country	Region	Tax take
1	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	0.6%
2	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.2%
3	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.4%
4	China	Asia-Pacific	7.0%
5	Panama	Americas	7.2%
6	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	7.6%
7	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	8.1%
8	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	8.3%
9	Switzerland	Europe	9.5%
10	Argentina	Americas	10.4%
11	Tajikistan	Eurasia	10.7%
12	United States	Americas	10.8%
13	Russia	Eurasia	10.9%
14	Germany	Europe	10.9%
15	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	10.9%
16	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	11.1%
17	Paraguay	Americas	11.3%
18	Guatemala	Americas	11.6%
19	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	12.4%
20	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	12.6%
21	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	12.7%
22	Belarus	Eurasia	13.0%
23	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	13.3%
24	Costa Rica	Americas	13.5%
25	Canada	Americas	13.7%
26	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	14.4%
27	Dominican Republic	Americas	14.7%
28	Mexico	Americas	14.8%
29	Spain	Europe	14.9%
30	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	15.2%
31	Colombia	Americas	15.2%
32	Brazil	Americas	15.4%
33	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	15.5%
34	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	15.6%
35	Romania	Europe	16.2%
36	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	16.9%
37	Bahamas	Americas	17.3%
38	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	17.3%
39	Turkey	Eurasia	17.6%
40	Latvia	Europe	17.6%
41	Uruguay	Americas	17.9%
42	Ireland	Europe	17.9%
43	Albania	Europe	18.0%
44	Chile	Americas	18.3%
45	Czechia	Europe	18.6%
46	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.7%
47	North Macedonia	Europe	18.8%
48	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	18.8%
49	Slovakia	Europe	19.1%
50	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	19.6%
51	Nicaragua	Americas	20.1%
52	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	20.2%
53	Bulgaria	Europe	20.7%
54	Slovenia	Europe	21.0%
55	Ukraine	Eurasia	21.0%
56	El Salvador	Americas	21.8%
57	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	21.8%
58	Lithuania	Europe	21.9%
59	Portugal	Europe	22.3%
60	Armenia	Eurasia	22.4%
61	Estonia	Europe	22.7%
62	Hungary	Europe	22.7%
63	France	Europe	22.8%
64	Belgium	Europe	23.0%
65	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	23.2%
66	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	23.3%
67	Cyprus	Europe	23.9%
68	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	23.9%
69	Georgia	Eurasia	24.3%
70	Norway	Europe	24.5%
71	Netherlands	Europe	25.3%
72	Finland	Europe	25.3%
73	Italy	Europe	25.6%
74	Austria	Europe	25.8%
75	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	25.9%
76	United Kingdom	Europe	26.9%
77	Sweden	Europe	27.2%
78	Greece	Europe	27.4%
79	Luxembourg	Europe	28.6%
80	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	29.5%
81	Denmark	Europe	33.4%
82	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	33.9%
83	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	35.4%

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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