Data for 2012

Tax Revenue (% of GDP), 2012

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Tax revenue as a share of GDP is how much of a country’s economy its governments collect in taxes — national, regional and local, social security contributions included. It is the OECD’s standard measure of a state’s tax take, compiled under one classification of taxes so that a country in Africa, Latin America or Asia can be read against an OECD member.

Tax Revenue (% of GDP), 2012 covers 136 countries on 7 measures. Denmark is highest, at 45.626; Sierra Leone is lowest, at 6.387. The middle country reads 20.697. Against 2011, 131 values changed (85 up, 46 down), 5 countries joined.

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Tax Revenue (% of GDP) · Data for 2012

HighestDenmark

45.626

LowestSierra Leone

6.387

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

136countries
7measures per country
2012the year it describes
136distinct values14 decimals, as published
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Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	45.626	28.294	0.123	0.2930	1.7787	15.1005	0.036932
France`FRA`Western Europe	44.461	10.629	16.381	1.5015	3.7924	11.6362	0.521060
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	44.130	15.287	14.197	0.0020	3.2595	11.3726	0.011703
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	43.523	14.156	12.915	0.0000	2.6717	11.7440	2.037114
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	42.554	14.573	12.607	0.0000	1.1783	14.1582	0.037429
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	42.336	14.546	10.085	4.3046	1.0084	12.3423	0.048394
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	42.132	11.892	14.309	2.8922	0.5576	12.1994	0.282129
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	41.290	19.998	9.285	0.0000	1.0321	10.9753	0.000000
Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	39.201	6.200	4.160	5.6168	0.0000	22.1923	1.031432
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	39.005	6.789	13.241	0.5408	1.2142	17.1029	0.116635
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	38.100	6.933	15.964	0.0713	0.6305	14.5013	0.000000
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	37.192	8.730	11.260	0.0000	2.7827	14.4196	0.000000
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	37.081	8.820	12.727	0.0000	0.0093	15.4461	0.079092
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	36.622	10.925	13.689	0.0000	0.8779	11.1256	0.004251
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	36.408	12.800	10.591	0.0000	2.5597	10.4026	0.055131
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	36.325	5.540	11.383	0.0000	1.1467	18.2548	0.000000
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	35.302	8.944	14.409	0.0000	1.0727	10.7851	0.092217
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	33.600	15.153	3.471	0.2890	2.2165	11.9360	0.534596
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	33.199	6.800	14.492	0.0000	0.4991	11.4033	0.004531
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	32.210	9.564	11.632	0.0000	2.1127	8.9000	0.001351
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	32.189	6.564	12.003	0.2644	1.3404	11.9721	0.044876
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	32.138	11.322	6.087	0.0000	3.8116	10.9168	0.000000
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	31.799	6.545	11.059	0.0000	0.3241	13.8715	0.000000
Brazil`BRA`South America	31.796	6.677	8.362	0.5983	1.3588	14.8007	-0.000077
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	31.670	8.552	8.675	0.0000	1.0283	13.1687	0.245309
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	31.583	17.328	0.000	0.0000	2.0011	12.2528	0.001369
Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	31.249	10.689	0.636	0.0000	1.3544	18.5693	0.000000
Canada`CAN`Northern America	31.177	14.796	4.699	0.6514	3.7048	7.2882	0.037380
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	30.990	11.942	5.510	0.0000	0.9306	12.6083	0.000000
Argentina`ARG`South America	30.635	5.311	6.815	0.0000	2.7436	15.4560	0.309231
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	30.301	7.639	9.016	0.0138	1.0010	12.6319	0.000000
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	29.469	8.902	4.949	1.1718	3.1056	11.3415	0.000000
Niue`NIU`Polynesia	29.346	11.087	0.000	0.0000	0.0000	18.2595	0.000000
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	28.680	5.432	12.161	0.0000	0.4286	10.6585	0.000000
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	27.956	11.797	4.739	0.1672	1.7412	9.5053	0.005431
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	27.949	8.678	11.631	0.0000	2.5462	5.0169	0.077330
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	27.712	8.012	7.902	0.3033	0.3085	10.6803	0.505461
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	27.610	3.786	8.483	0.0000	0.2874	15.0541	0.000000
Cook Islands`COK`Polynesia	27.422	10.969	0.000	0.0000	0.0000	16.4528	0.000000
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	27.262	8.426	4.980	0.0000	1.6844	11.9291	0.242014
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	27.173	4.791	10.859	0.0000	0.2855	11.2372	0.000000
Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	26.861	7.310	5.449	0.0000	1.3763	12.7245	0.000000
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	26.806	15.536	0.000	1.3942	2.3422	7.5341	0.000000
Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	26.578	18.768	1.617	0.0000	0.1254	6.0680	0.000000
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	26.506	5.158	8.360	0.0000	0.6887	12.2915	0.008178
Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	26.101	9.022	0.000	0.0000	0.1040	16.9757	0.000000
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	26.093	11.846	6.495	0.0000	1.7949	5.8634	0.094175
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	26.079	4.485	6.771	0.0151	0.5265	14.2809	0.000000
Bolivia`BOL`South America	25.906	5.172	4.941	0.0000	0.2142	14.2045	1.374792
Marshall Islands`MHL`Micronesia	24.937	6.244	10.753	0.2107	0.1761	7.3776	0.175930
Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	24.790	20.467	—	0.0000	0.0000	0.3356	3.987484
Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	24.760	5.407	6.728	0.0000	1.0440	11.1481	0.432527
Uruguay`URY`South America	24.755	4.888	6.391	0.0000	2.0465	11.2911	0.137813
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	24.526	8.488	0.869	1.1340	0.8707	13.0734	0.091133
South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	24.395	12.560	0.395	0.3178	1.2843	9.8378	0.000818
Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	24.046	6.834	0.000	0.0000	0.2965	16.9156	0.000000
United States`USA`Northern America	23.916	11.207	5.416	0.0104	2.9576	4.3249	0.000000
Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	23.913	9.377	0.000	0.0000	0.8245	13.5861	0.126179
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	23.853	9.112	0.591	1.0995	0.4667	12.5839	0.000010
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	22.685	6.775	5.608	0.0577	2.4067	7.0714	0.766212
Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	22.565	3.754	7.522	1.3639	0.3452	9.0532	0.526660
Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	22.273	5.547	0.000	0.0000	0.1395	16.5864	0.000000
Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	22.152	5.222	3.938	0.0000	0.3986	12.5943	0.000000
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	21.953	9.468	6.062	—	1.7109	4.7082	0.003521
Chile`CHL`South America	21.323	8.312	1.387	0.0000	0.9546	10.6742	-0.003899
Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	21.228	11.230	0.000	0.0000	—	7.8227	2.175224
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	21.205	7.756	0.354	0.0000	0.1798	12.7439	0.171536
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	20.818	5.285	4.438	0.0000	0.2100	10.7172	0.166577
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	20.577	4.507	—	0.0000	0.3771	15.6932	-0.000386
Belize`BLZ`Central America	20.244	6.064	1.683	0.0000	0.7088	11.7891	0.000000
Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	19.990	4.930	3.025	0.0000	0.0000	11.1775	0.857431
Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	19.955	5.203	2.383	0.0000	0.5516	11.8172	0.000000
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	19.850	13.275	0.306	0.0000	0.2639	5.7678	0.237435
Ecuador`ECU`South America	19.730	3.820	5.420	0.0000	0.2407	10.2487	0.000825
Colombia`COL`South America	19.721	6.552	1.773	0.7164	2.0508	7.9883	0.640442
Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	19.270	4.402	0.699	0.0566	1.0464	13.0139	0.053193
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	19.050	5.844	2.455	0.1127	0.1152	10.1630	0.360441
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	18.936	12.685	0.000	0.0086	0.1581	6.0840	0.000000
Peru`PER`South America	18.782	7.323	1.992	0.0142	0.7991	8.1846	0.468772
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	18.641	2.098	2.243	0.0000	1.6074	12.6921	0.000000
Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	18.468	7.331	0.876	0.0000	0.4143	9.7308	0.114628
China`CHN`Eastern Asia	18.376	5.149	—	0.0000	1.2372	11.6856	0.303499
Suriname`SUR`South America	18.371	9.406	—	0.0000	0.0299	8.9353	0.000000
Honduras`HND`Central America	18.313	4.790	3.004	0.1767	0.3367	9.3934	0.612582
Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	17.924	6.401	3.805	0.0000	0.0310	7.6879	0.000000
Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	16.645	5.217	0.025	0.0000	0.9344	10.4684	0.000000
Panama`PAN`Central America	16.316	4.910	5.100	0.1741	0.3981	5.6224	0.111118
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	16.229	7.344	0.215	0.0000	0.0270	8.4631	0.180236
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	16.133	4.259	1.058	0.1675	0.4126	10.0971	0.138629
Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	16.092	11.498	0.239	0.0000	0.0002	3.7731	0.581511
Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	15.826	3.866	—	0.0000	0.0367	11.9234	0.000000
Guyana`GUY`South America	15.816	5.365	1.424	0.0000	0.2886	8.5917	0.146364
Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	15.658	0.000	0.000	0.0000	0.7155	14.9427	0.000000
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	15.093	6.250	1.947	0.0000	0.4608	5.8632	0.572028
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	14.906	4.017	1.431	0.0920	0.1012	9.1816	0.083799
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	14.729	7.739	—	0.0000	0.0610	6.9293	0.000000
Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	14.504	6.605	—	0.0000	0.1474	7.7416	0.009380
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	14.472	4.365	—	0.2590	0.0497	9.7624	0.035185
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	14.288	9.105	0.000	0.0000	0.0483	5.1345	0.000000
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	14.212	3.569	1.681	0.1555	0.1536	8.1153	0.536903
Kiribati`KIR`Micronesia	14.167	6.020	0.000	0.0000	0.0000	8.1476	0.000000
Venezuela`VEN`South America	14.111	4.325	0.953	0.0000	0.0212	8.5718	0.240333
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	13.903	5.936	2.486	0.0000	0.0678	5.4131	0.000000
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	13.802	0.000	1.894	0.0000	2.6761	9.3308	-0.099109
Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	13.744	6.991	—	0.1330	0.0034	6.6003	0.017097
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	13.727	5.242	0.912	0.0000	0.0006	7.5726	0.000000
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	13.554	8.736	0.000	0.0000	2.7383	1.6987	0.381224
Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	13.491	6.033	0.000	0.0000	2.1745	4.1153	1.168775
Paraguay`PRY`South America	13.406	1.972	3.510	0.0000	0.2047	7.5218	0.198208
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	13.058	3.843	0.052	0.0695	0.7827	8.3096	0.000008
Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	12.987	5.014	0.662	0.0140	0.3887	6.9078	0.000000
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	12.985	4.140	0.958	0.2626	0.0980	7.3191	0.206736
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	12.888	2.684	1.963	0.1416	0.4070	6.9708	0.722004
Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	12.811	5.558	1.547	0.0000	0.2624	5.4438	0.000000
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	12.805	2.315	1.248	1.4255	0.3234	7.4366	0.057287
Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	12.626	4.741	1.336	0.0838	0.1090	6.3561	0.000401
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	12.484	5.398	—	0.0000	0.3812	5.5976	1.107313
Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	12.221	3.404	—	0.0000	0.0720	8.7458	0.000000
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	12.179	4.801	0.918	0.0000	—	6.4595	0.000000
Mexico`MEX`Central America	12.105	4.859	1.998	0.2906	0.2734	4.4596	0.224330
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	12.044	1.831	—	0.2275	0.0839	9.6517	0.250041
DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	10.554	2.292	0.467	0.1880	0.0341	6.9787	0.593838
Niger`NER`Western Africa	10.373	3.449	0.515	0.0361	0.0686	5.6578	0.647077
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	10.280	4.679	0.000	0.0000	—	5.5807	0.020029
Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	10.242	1.755	0.131	0.0000	0.0000	8.3002	0.056267
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	10.137	8.184	—	0.0885	0.3208	1.5427	0.000788
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	9.844	1.782	—	0.0000	0.3814	7.6759	0.005091
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	9.766	3.230	—	0.0938	0.0464	6.3884	0.007048
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	9.422	6.516	0.708	0.0367	—	1.9353	0.225619
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	9.045	2.938	—	0.0000	0.1000	5.5692	0.437326
Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	8.771	7.580	0.000	0.0000	0.0027	0.6028	0.585311
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	8.659	2.017	0.315	0.0000	0.0537	6.2579	0.015148
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	8.542	2.865	—	0.0000	—	5.5718	0.104259
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	7.600	2.585	0.000	0.0000	0.0000	5.0154	0.000000
Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	7.007	2.441	—	0.2043	0.1928	4.1598	0.009241
Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	6.387	3.180	—	0.0000	—	3.2070	0.000000

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

Denmark45.626
France44.461
Belgium44.130
Italy43.523
Finland42.554

Lowest

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 20.697. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of GDP)
HighestDenmark28.294
Lowest2 share it
Middle country: 6.458
Social security contributions (% of GDP)
HighestFrance16.381
Lowest18 share it
Middle country: 2.383
Taxes on payroll and workforce (% of GDP)
HighestCuba5.6168
Lowest84 share it
Middle country: 0.0000
Taxes on property (% of GDP)
HighestUnited Kingdom3.8116
Lowest8 share it
Middle country: 0.4028
Taxes on goods and services (% of GDP)
HighestCuba22.1923
LowestTimor-Leste0.3356
Middle country: 9.7466
Other taxes (% of GDP)
HighestTimor-Leste3.987484
LowestBahamas-0.099109
Middle country: 0.018563

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

+5 / −0countries joined / left
131values changed, of 131 in both
85 · 46rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Cambodia6.041 → 9.844+3.803
Cook Islands24.138 → 27.422+3.284
Maldives12.581 → 15.826+3.245
Greece34.230 → 37.192+2.962
Guinea11.614 → 14.472+2.858

Fell most

Mozambique29.366 → 21.205−8.161
Chad13.051 → 10.137−2.914
Niger13.089 → 10.373−2.715
Mongolia24.478 → 22.152−2.325
Marshall Islands26.884 → 24.937−1.946

+ Liberia

+ Suriname

+ Timor-Leste

+ Ukraine

+ Zambia

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