Across 89 countries worldwide, the highest value is in Lesotho (35.4 %) and the lowest in United Arab Emirates (0.6 %).
The median country is at 18.0 %: half are above, half below.
For the world as a whole, the value fell from 14.2 % in 1991 to 13.8 % in 2024.
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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uses the latest year for which at least half of the countries have a value; countries
without a value that year are not listed.
