List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP
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This article lists countries by total tax revenue
Tax revenue
Tax revenue is the income that is gained by governments through taxation.Just as there are different types of tax, the form in which tax revenue is collected also differs; furthermore, the agency that collects the tax may not be part of central government, but may be an alternative third-party...

 as a percentage of gross domestic product
Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living....

 (GDP) for the listed countries. Three sources are used, one for each column. The tax percentage for each country listed in the sources has been added to the chart.
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Country Heritage
Foundation
OECD 2009
(some 2008).
Eurostat
(2008 data)
 Afghanistan 06.4
 Albania 22.9
 Algeria 07.7
 Angola 05.7
 Argentina 22.9
 Armenia 14.1
 Australia 30.8 27.1 (2008)
 Austria 43.4 42.8 42.8
 Azerbaijan 17.8
18.7
 Bahrain 04.8
 Bangladesh 08.5
 Barbados 32.6
 Belarus 24.2
 Belgium 46.8 43.2 44.3
 Belize 21.6
 Benin 15.4
 Bhutan 10.7
 Bolivia 27.0
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 41.2
 Botswana 35.2
 Brazil 34.4
 Kingdom of Bulgaria 34.4 33.3
 Burkina Faso 11.5
 Myanmar 04.9
 Burundi 17.4
 Cambodia 08.0
 Cameroon 18.2
 Canada 32.2 31.1
 Cape Verde 23.0
 Central African Republic 07.7
 Chad 04.2
 Chile 18.6 18.2
 Mainland China 17.0
 Colombia 23.0
 Comoros 12.0
05.9
 Costa Rica 14.0
 Côte d'Ivoire 15.3
 Independent State of Croatia 26.6
 Cuba 44.8
 Cyprus 39.2 39.2
 Czech Republic 36.3 34.8 36.1
 Denmark 49.0 48.2 48.2
 Djibouti 20.0
 Dominica 30.3
 Dominican Republic 15.0
13.2
 Ecuador 13.2
 Egypt 15.8
 El Salvador 13.3
 Equatorial Guinea 01.7
 Estonia 32.3 32.2
 Ethiopia 11.6
 Fiji 21.8
 Finland 43.6 43.1 43.1
 Early Modern France 46.1 41.9 42.8
 Gabon 10.3
 The Gambia 18.9
 Georgia (country) 21.7
 Germany 40.6 37.0 39.3
 Ghana 20.8
 Greece 33.5 29.4 32.6
 Guatemala 11.9
 Guinea 08.2
 Guinea-Bissau 11.5
 Guyana 31.9
 Haiti 09.4
 Honduras 15.6
 Hong Kong 13.0
 Hungary 37.3 39.1 40.4
 Iceland 40.4 41.4 36.7
 India 17.7
 Indonesia 11.0
 Iran 07.3
 Republic of Ireland 30.8 27.8 29.3
 Israel 36.8 31.4
 Italy 42.6 43.5 42.8
 Jamaica 27.2
 Japan 27.4 28.1 (2008)
 Jordan 21.1
 Kazakhstan 26.8
 Kenya 18.4
 Kiribati 69.7
 South Korea 26.8 25.6
 Kuwait 01.5
 Kyrgyzstan 21.4
 Laos 10.8
 Latvia 30.4 28.9
 Lebanon 14.4
 Lesotho 42.9
 Liberia 13.2
 Libya 02.7
 Lithuania 20.9 30.3
 Luxembourg 36.5 37.5 35.6
 Macau 20.1
 Republic of Macedonia 29.3
 Madagascar 10.7
 Malawi 20.7
 Malaysia 15.5
 Maldives 20.5
 Mali 15.3
 Malta 35.2 34.5
 Mauritania 15.4
 Mauritius 19.0
 Mexico 09.7 17.5
 Federated States of Micronesia 12.3
 Moldova 33.8
 Mongolia 33.8
 Kingdom of Montenegro 28.0
 Morocco 22.3
 Mozambique 13.4
 Namibia 28.8
 Nepal 10.9
 Netherlands 39.8 39.1 (2008) 39.1
 New Zealand 34.5 31.0
 Nicaragua 17.8
 Niger 11.0
 Nigeria 06.1
 Norway 43.6 41.0 42.2
(unweighted average, 2008) 34.8
 Oman 02.0
 Pakistan 10.2
 Panama 10.6
 Papua New Guinea 24.5
 Paraguay 12.0
 Peru 15.1
 Philippines 14.4
 Poland 33.8 34.3 (2008) 34.3
 Portugal 37.0 35.2 (2008) 36.7
 Qatar 02.2
 Kingdom of Romania 28.1 28.0
 Russia 36.9
 Rwanda 14.1
 Saint Lucia 23.1
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 26.5
 Samoa 25.5
 São Tomé and Príncipe 17.4
 Saudi Arabia 05.3
 Senegal 19.2
 Serbia 34.1
 Seychelles 32.0
 Sierra Leone 10.5
 Singapore 14.2
 Slovakia 29.5 29.3 29.1
 Slovenia 39.3 37.9 37.3
 Solomon Islands 24.7
 South Africa 26.9
 Spain 37.3 30.7 33.1
 Sri Lanka 15.3
 Sudan 06.3
 Suriname 22.1
 Swaziland 39.8
 Sweden 47.9 46.4 47.1
 Switzerland 29.4 30.3
 Syria 10.7
 Republic of China 12.4
 Tajikistan 16.5
 Tanzania 12.0
 Thailand 17.0
 East Timor see reference
 Togo 15.5
 Tonga 27.0
 Trinidad and Tobago 28.0
 Tunisia 14.9
 Turkey 32.5 24.6
 Turkmenistan 20.2
 Uganda 12.6
 Ukraine 38.1
 United Arab Emirates 01.4
 United Kingdom 39.0 34.3 37.3
 United States (all levels) 26.9 24.0
 Uruguay 23.1
 Uzbekistan 21.0
 Vanuatu 17.8
 Venezuela 25.0
 Vietnam 13.8
 Yemen 07.1
 Zambia 16.1
 Zimbabwe 49.3

See also

  • Progressive tax
    Progressive tax
    A progressive tax is a tax by which the tax rate increases as the taxable base amount increases. "Progressive" describes a distribution effect on income or expenditure, referring to the way the rate progresses from low to high, where the average tax rate is less than the marginal tax rate...

  • Proportional tax
    Proportional tax
    A proportional tax is a tax imposed so that the tax rate is fixed. The amount of the tax is in proportion to the amount subject to taxation. "Proportional" describes a distribution effect on income or expenditure, referring to the way the rate remains consistent , where the marginal tax rate is...

  • Regressive tax
    Regressive tax
    A regressive tax is a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases. "Regressive" describes a distribution effect on income or expenditure, referring to the way the rate progresses from high to low, where the average tax rate exceeds the...

  • Tax incidence
    Tax incidence
    In economics, tax incidence is the analysis of the effect of a particular tax on the distribution of economic welfare. Tax incidence is said to "fall" upon the group that, at the end of the day, bears the burden of the tax...

  • Tax rates around the world
    Tax rates around the world
    Comparison of tax rates around the world is difficult and somewhat subjective. Tax laws in most countries are extremely complex, and tax burden falls differently on different groups in each country and sub-national unit. The graph below gives an indication by rank of some raw...

  • Tax rates of Europe
    Tax rates of Europe
    This is a list of the maximum potential tax rates around Europe for certain income brackets. It is focused on three types of taxes: corporate and individual taxes and value added taxes...

  • Tax exporting
    Tax exporting
    Tax exporting occurs when a country indirectly encourages economic activity to move to another country with a lower tax burden. This is more likely if the economic activity is more mobile....

  • Capital flight
    Capital flight
    Capital flight, in economics, occurs when assets and/or money rapidly flow out of a country, due to an economic event and that disturbs investors and causes them to lower their valuation of the assets in that country, or otherwise to lose confidence in its economic...


Further reading

Some of these provide additional info for various countries.
  • Tax revenues fall in OECD countries. Dec. 15, 2010. OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). At the end of the article are links to tables.
  • Federal Tax Revenue as Share of GDP 1990-2009 for 148 Countries - excludes voluntary insurance programs. World Bank
    World Bank
    The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...

    .
  • 5506.0 - Taxation Revenue, Australia, 2008-09. Australian Bureau of Statistics
    Australian Bureau of Statistics
    The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistical agency. It was created as the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics on 8 December 1905, when the Census and Statistics Act 1905 was given Royal assent. It had its beginnings in section 51 of the Constitution of Australia...

    .
  • OECD Taxes as Share of GDP 1999-2005. Tax Policy Center
    Tax Policy Center
    The Tax Policy Center is a non-partisan joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. Based in Washington D.C., it aims to provide independent analyses of current and longer-term tax issues and to communicate its analyses to the public and to policymakers in a timely and...

     (Urban Institute
    Urban Institute
    The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that carries out nonpartisan economic and social policy research, collects data, evaluates social programs, educates the public on key domestic issues, and provides advice and technical assistance to developing governments abroad...

    , Brookings Institution
    Brookings Institution
    The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...

    ).
  • Tax revenue as an automatic fiscal stabiliser - a South African perspective. September 2002. By A.S. Swanepoel (South African Reserve Bank
    South African Reserve Bank
    The South African Reserve Bank is the central bank of South Africa. It was established in 1921 after Parliament passed an act, the "Currency and Bank Act of 10 August 1920," as a direct result of the abnormal monetary and financial conditions which World War I had brought...

    ), and Nicolaas J. Schoeman (Department of Economics, University of Pretoria
    University of Pretoria
    The University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...

    ). South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences (SAJEMS). See table 2 on page 576. Total taxes of 26.4% of GDP in 2001. Research Repository of the University of Pretoria, South Africa: https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/handle/2263/1682
  • RGST to raise tax-to-GDP ratio to 12pc. By Nasir Jamal. Oct 6, 2010. Dawn
    Dawn (newspaper)
    Dawn is Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. One of the country's two largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the Herald, a magazine, the evening paper The Star and...

    (Pakistan's oldest, and most widely-read English-language newspaper).
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