List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP

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By country List of countries by tax rates Tax revenues as %GDP Albania Algeria Argentina Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bhutan Canada China Colombia France Germany Greece Iceland India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kazakhstan Lithuania Namibia Netherlands New Zealand Norway Pakistan Palestinian territories Peru Philippines Russia Singapore South Africa Sweden Switzerland Tanzania United Kingdom United States Uruguay

This article lists countries by total tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product (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 (2012)^[1]	OECD 2009 (some 2008).^[2]^[3]^[4]	Eurostat (2011 data)^[5]
Afghanistan	06.4
Albania	22.9
Algeria	07.7
Angola	05.7
Argentina	37.2	(2011)
Armenia	14.1
Australia	25.8	27.1 (2008)
Austria	43.4	42.8	42.0
Azerbaijan	17.8
Bahamas, The	18.7
Bahrain	04.8
Bangladesh	08.5
Barbados	32.6
Belarus	24.2
Belgium	46.8	43.2	44.1
Belize	21.6
Benin	15.4
Bhutan	10.7
Bolivia	27.0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.2
Botswana	35.2
Brazil	34.4
Bulgaria	34.4		27.2
Burkina Faso	11.5
Burma	04.9
Burundi	17.4
Cambodia	08.0
Cameroon	18.2
Canada	32.2	31.1
Cape Verde	23.0
Chad	04.2
Chile	21.0	18.2
China	17.0
Colombia	23.0
Comoros	12.0
Congo, Republic of	05.9
Costa Rica	21.0
Côte d'Ivoire	15.3
Croatia	26.6
Cuba	44.8
Cyprus	39.2		35.2
Czech Republic	36.3	34.8	34.4
Denmark	49.0	48.2	47.7
Djibouti	20.0
Dominica	30.3
Dominican Republic	12.0
Congo, Democratic Republic of	13.2
Ecuador	13.2
Egypt	15.8
El Salvador	13.3
Equatorial Guinea	01.7
Estonia	32.3		32.2
Ethiopia	11.6
European Union (unweighted average)			35.7
Fiji	21.8
Finland	43.6	43.1	43.4
France	44.6	41.9	43.9
Gabon	10.3
Gambia	18.9
Georgia	21.7
Germany	40.6	37.0	38.7
Ghana	20.8
Greece	30.0	29.4	32.4
Guatemala	11.9
Guinea	08.2
Guinea-Bissau	11.5
Guyana	31.9
Haiti	09.4
Honduras	15.6
Hong Kong, China	13.0
Hungary	39.1	39.1	37.0
Iceland	40.4	41.4	35.9
India	17.7
Indonesia	12.0
Iran	06.1
Ireland	30.8	27.8	28.9
Israel	36.8	31.4
Italy	42.6	43.5	42.5
Jamaica	27.2
Japan	28.3	28.1 (2008)
Jordan	21.1
Kazakhstan	26.8
Kenya	18.4
Kiribati^[6]	20.7
Korea, South	26.8	25.6
Kuwait	01.5
Kyrgyzstan	21.4
Laos	10.8
Latvia	30.4		27.6
Lebanon	14.4
Lesotho	42.9
Liberia	13.2
Libya	02.7
Lithuania	20.9		26.0
Luxembourg	36.5	37.5	37.2
Macau, China	20.1
Macedonia	29.3
Madagascar	10.7
Malawi	20.7
Malaysia	15.5
Maldives	20.5
Mali	15.3
Malta	35.2		33.5
Mauritania	15.4
Mauritius	19.0
Mexico	29.7	17.5
Federated States of Micronesia	12.3
Moldova	33.8
Mongolia	33.8
Montenegro	28.0
Morocco	22.3
Mozambique	13.4
Namibia	28.8
Nepal	10.9
Netherlands	39.8	39.1 (2008)	38.4
New Zealand	34.5	31.0
Nicaragua	17.8
Niger	11.0
Nigeria	06.1
Norway	43.6	41.0	42.5
OECD (unweighted average)		34.8 (2008)
Oman	02.0
Pakistan	10.2
Panama	10.6
Papua New Guinea	24.5
Paraguay	12.0
Peru	18
Philippines	14.4
Poland	33.8	34.3 (2008)	32.4
Portugal	37.0	35.2 (2008)	33.2
Qatar	02.2
Republic of China	12.4
Romania	28.1		28.2
Russia	29.5
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	28.5
Slovenia	39.3	37.9	37.2
Solomon Islands	24.7
South Africa	26.9
Spain	37.3	30.7	31.4
Sri Lanka	15.3
Sudan	06.3
Suriname	22.1
Swaziland	39.8
Sweden	45.8	46.4	44.3
Switzerland	29.4	30.3
Syria	10.7
Tajikistan	16.5
Tanzania	12.0
Thailand	17.0
Timor-Leste^[7]	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	28.1
United Arab Emirates	01.4
United Kingdom	39.0	34.3	36.1
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

References

^ Index of Economic Freedom, Heritage Foundation. Note: Tax revenue as a percentage of GDP was obtained from the individual country pages, under the "Fiscal Freedom" section. These numbers change. Please update the numbers for individual countries in the list.
^ Total tax revenue as percentage of GDP. Table, 1965 to 2009 (it does not have each year). OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). Publication date: December 15, 2010. To view the .xls table you can use the free Excel Viewer. Most of the data is for 2009 and is provisional. 2008 data is shown for Australia, Japan, Netherlands, Poland and Portugal. The table is from the 2010 edition of the OECD book, Revenue Statistics. See the bottom of the page for links to editions for various years.
^ - OECD iLibraryOECDTaxation: Key Tables from . See "Total tax revenue" links (Web, PDF, XLS). This table covers the time period 2002 to 2009.
^ OECD. Statistics from A to Z - Beta version. See "Total tax revenue" links. Click the "Get real-time data" link to get a detailed 1965 to 2009 table with data for each year.
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^ Data from World Heritage Foundation 2013: [1]. Heritage Foundation.
^ For info see the "fiscal freedom" section of this page: "Timor-Leste information on economic freedom. Facts, data, analysis, charts and more". By the Heritage Foundation. "Timor-Leste has low taxes. The top income and corporate tax rates are 10 percent. In the most recent year, overall tax revenue as a percentage of non-oil GDP was 133.9 percent, reflecting large tax revenues from petroleum projects in the Timor Sea."

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.
5506.0 - Taxation Revenue, Australia, 2008-09. Australian Bureau of Statistics.
OECD Taxes as Share of GDP 1999-2005. Tax Policy Center (Urban Institute, Brookings Institution).
Tax revenue as an automatic fiscal stabiliser - a South African perspective. September 2002. By A.S. Swanepoel (South African Reserve Bank), and Nicolaas J. Schoeman (Department of Economics, University of Pretoria). 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: [2]
RGST to raise tax-to-GDP ratio to 12pc. By Nasir Jamal. Oct 6, 2010. Dawn (Pakistan's oldest, and most widely read English-language newspaper).

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