List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP

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This article lists countries by total tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). 3 sources are used, one for each column. The tax percentage for each country listed in the sources has been added to the chart.

Note: All the countries can be put in numerical order by clicking the arrow at the top of the first numbers column. The table can be returned to alphabetical order by clicking the arrow at the top of the country column.

Country	%[1]	%[2]	%[3]
Afghanistan	6.4
Albania	22.9
Algeria	7.7
Angola	5.7
Argentina	22.9
Armenia	14.1
Australia	30.5	30.6
Austria	43.4	41.9	41.8
Azerbaijan	17.8
Bahamas, The	18.7
Bahrain	2.4
Bangladesh	8.5
Barbados	32.6
Belarus	24.2
Belgium	46.8	44.4	44.6
Belize	21.6
Benin	15.4
Bhutan	10.7
Bolivia	27.0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	41.2
Botswana	35.2
Brazil	38.8
Bulgaria	34.4		34.4
Burkina Faso	11.5
Burma	4.9
Burundi	17.4
Cambodia	8.0
Cameroon	18.2
Canada	33.4	33.3
Cape Verde	23.0
Central African Republic	7.7
Chad	4.2
Chile	17.1
China, People's Republic of	17.0
China, Republic of (Taiwan)	12.4
Colombia	23.0
Comoros	12.0
Congo, Republic of	5.9
Costa Rica	14.0
Côte d'Ivoire	15.3
Croatia	26.6
Cuba	44.8
Cyprus	36.6		36.6
Czech Republic	36.3	36.4	36.2
Denmark	50.0	48.9	49.1
Djibouti	20.0
Dominica	30.3
Dominican Republic	15.0
Congo, Democratic Republic of	13.2
Ecuador	13.2
Egypt	15.8
El Salvador	13.3
Equatorial Guinea	1.7
Estonia	31.1		31.0
Ethiopia	11.6
Fiji	21.8
Finland	43.6	43.0	43.5
France	46.1	43.6	44.2
Gabon	10.3
Gambia	18.9
Georgia	21.7
Germany	40.6	36.2	39.3
Ghana	20.8
Greece	33.5	31.3	31.4
Guatemala	11.9
Guinea	8.2
Guinea-Bissau	11.5
Guyana	31.9
Haiti	9.4
Honduras	15.6
Hong Kong	12.8
Hungary	37.3	39.3	37.2
Iceland	40.4	41.4
India	17.7
Indonesia	11.0
Iran	7.3
Ireland	34.0	32.2	32.6
Israel	36.8
Italy	42.6	43.3	42.3
Jamaica	27.2
Japan	27.4	27.9
Jordan	21.1
Kazakhstan	26.8
Kenya	18.4
Kiribati[4]	91.6
Korea, South	26.8	28.7
Kuwait	1.5
Kyrgyzstan	21.4
Laos	10.8
Latvia	30.4		30.1
Lebanon	14.4
Lesotho	42.9
Liberia	13.2
Libya	2.7
Lithuania	20.9		29.7
Luxembourg	36.4	36.9	35.6
Macau	20.1
Macedonia	29.3
Madagascar	10.7
Malawi	20.7
Malaysia	15.5
Maldives	20.5
Mali	15.3
Malta	35.2		33.8
Mauritania	15.4
Mauritius	18.1
Mexico	9.7	20.5
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	39.5	38.0	39.5
New Zealand	36.5	36.0
Nicaragua	17.8
Niger	11.0
Nigeria	6.1
Norway	43.6	43.4	44.0
Oman	2.0
Pakistan	10.6
Panama	10.6
Papua New Guinea	24.5
Paraguay	12.0
Peru	15.1
Philippines	14.4
Poland	33.8	33.5	33.8
Portugal	37.0	36.6	35.9
Qatar	2.2
Romania	28.1		28.6
Russia	36.9
Rwanda	14.1
Saint Lucia	23.1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	26.5
Samoa	25.5
Sao Tome and Principe	17.4
Saudi Arabia	5.3
Senegal	19.2
Serbia	34.1
Seychelles	32.0
Sierra Leone	10.5
Singapore	13.0
Slovakia	29.5	29.8	29.3
Slovenia	39.3		39.1
Solomon Islands	24.7
South Africa	26.9
Spain	37.3	37.2	36.5
Sri Lanka	15.3
Sudan	6.3
Suriname	22.1
Swaziland	39.8
Sweden	49.7	48.2	48.9
Switzerland	30.1	29.7
Syria	10.7
Tajikistan	16.5
Tanzania	12.0
Thailand	17.0
Timor-Leste[5]	109.7
Togo	15.5
Tonga	27.0
Trinidad and Tobago	28.0
Tunisia	14.9
Turkey	32.5	23.7
Turkmenistan	20.2
Uganda	12.6
Ukraine	38.1
United Arab Emirates	1.4
United Kingdom	39.0	36.6	37.4
United States	28.2	28.3
Uruguay	23.1
Uzbekistan	21.0
Vanuatu	17.8
Venezuela	25.0
Vietnam	13.8
Yemen	7.1
Zambia	16.1
Zimbabwe	49.3

References

Further reading

Some of these provide additional info on sourcing for some countries.

• 5506.0 - Taxation Revenue, Australia, 2005-06. April 3, 2007. 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]
• Tax-to-GDP ratio stands at 10pc. By Mubarak Zeb Khan. June 11, 2008. Dawn (Pakistan's oldest, and most widely-read English-language newspaper). Total taxes of 10% of GDP in 2007.