Tax revenue in Europe

34 countries in Europe, 2024. Unit: % of GDP. World ranking →

First in the ranking
33.4 %
Denmark
Median country
21.4 %
half above, half below
World
13.8 %
World Bank aggregate
Range
9.5 to 33.4
Switzerland - Denmark

How to read it

Across 34 countries in Europe, the highest value is in Denmark (33.4 %) and the lowest in Switzerland (9.5 %).

The median country is at 21.4 %: half are above, half below.

Taxes are compulsory, unrequited payments, in cash or in kind, made by institutional units to government units. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

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Source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) · via World Bank WDI (GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS) · licence

Tax revenue over time

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Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1Denmark33.4
2Luxembourg28.6
3Greece27.4
4Sweden27.2
5United Kingdom26.9
6Austria25.8
7Italy25.6
8Finland25.3
9Netherlands25.3
10Norway24.5
11Malta24.1
12Belgium23.0
13France22.8
14Hungary22.7
15Estonia22.7
16Portugal22.3
17Lithuania21.9
18Ukraine21.0
19Slovenia21.0
20Bulgaria20.7
21Bosnia and Herzegovina20.2
22Slovakia19.1
23North Macedonia18.8
24Czechia18.6
25Albania18.0
26Ireland17.9
27Latvia17.6
28Romania16.2
29Andorra15.6
30Spain14.9
31Belarus13.0
32Germany10.9
33Russia10.9
34Switzerland9.5
World Bank, WDI · GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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