Tax Revenue (% of GDP)

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: tax-to-gdp-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Total tax revenue (% of GDP)is built fromTaxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of GDP)Social security contributions (% of GDP)Taxes on payroll and workforce (% of GDP)Taxes on property (% of GDP)Taxes on goods and services (% of GDP)Other taxes (% of GDP)

Every column in the newest file of Tax Revenue (% of GDP): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	127	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	127	0
Total tax revenue (% of GDP)tax_to_gdpHeadline	The headline figure: Total tax revenue, all levels of government (% of GDP).	Number · up to 14 decimals	3.1103Somalia45.1771Denmarkmiddle 21.8543	127	0
Taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of GDP)income_taxesPart of the headline	Taxes on personal and corporate income, profits and capital gains, as a share of GDP.	Number · up to 14 decimals	0.0002 share it30.886Denmarkmiddle 7.050	126	0
Social security contributions (% of GDP)social_securityPart of the headline	Compulsory social security contributions paid by employees, employers and the self-employed to general government, as a share of GDP.	Number · up to 15 decimals	0.00015 share it16.867Sloveniamiddle 2.979	97	16
Taxes on payroll and workforce (% of GDP)payroll_taxesPart of the headline	Taxes on payroll or the workforce that do not buy a social benefit, as a share of GDP.	Number · up to 20 decimals	0.00000075 share it5.296843Swedenmiddle 0.000000	52	1
Taxes on property (% of GDP)property_taxesPart of the headline	Recurrent taxes on land, buildings and net wealth, plus taxes on estates, gifts and property transactions, as a share of GDP.	Number · up to 18 decimals	0.0000012 share it3.73776United Kingdommiddle 0.41976	115	1
Taxes on goods and services (% of GDP)goods_services_taxesPart of the headline	Value added and sales taxes, excise duties, customs duties and other taxes on goods and services, as a share of GDP.	Number · up to 14 decimals	1.2059Equatorial Guinea20.6697Maldivesmiddle 9.9208	127	0
Other taxes (% of GDP)other_taxesPart of the headline	Taxes that fit none of the other headings, as a share of GDP; refunds can push it below zero.	Number · up to 18 decimals	-0.407431Chile3.060336Boliviamiddle 0.030917	87	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 35 years.

Not in this dataset · 84 places this site covers

OECD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaArubaBahrainBelarusBeninBermudaBosnia and HerzegovinaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiBurundiCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsComorosCuraçaoCyprusDjiboutiDominicaEritreaEthiopiaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamGuinea-BissauHaitiIndiaIranIraqIsle of ManJordanKosovoKuwaitLebanonLibyaMacauMicronesiaMonacoMontenegroMontserratMyanmarNepalNew CaledoniaNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPalestinePuerto RicoQatarRussiaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSaudi ArabiaSerbiaSint MaartenSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSyriaTaiwanTajikistanTanzaniaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited Arab EmiratesUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVatican CityYemenZimbabwe

1. 1 · Publisher

   OECD

   oecd.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Tax Revenue (% of GDP) 2024

   .TAX_REV.S13._T+T_1000+T_2000+T_3000+T_4000+T_5000+T_6000._T.PT_B1GQ.A

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   35 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as tax-to-gdp-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/tax-to-gdp

Read from the OECD’s Global Revenue Statistics database through its SDMX API: tax revenue reported by national ministries and tax administrations, harmonised by the OECD and its regional partners. The six main tax headings are stored beside the total; the OECD’s regional averages are left out.

• Charted

  Tax Revenue (% of GDP) by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Money & Public Finance
  • Economy & Innovation

• Near neighbours

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