Taxes on goods and services (% of revenue) - Country Ranking

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Macao SAR, China 82.84 2019
2 The Bahamas 67.36 2019
3 Sudan 59.79 2016
4 Mauritius 58.60 2019
5 Guatemala 55.35 2019
6 Tajikistan 54.09 2004
7 Dominican Republic 51.86 2019
8 Sri Lanka 51.18 2019
9 Albania 50.69 2019
10 Cambodia 50.42 2019
11 Seychelles 49.64 2018
12 Bolivia 49.31 2007
13 Georgia 48.59 2020
14 Belize 48.07 2017
15 Armenia 47.88 2019
16 Croatia 47.72 2019
17 Honduras 47.67 2015
18 Nepal 47.46 2019
19 Moldova 47.30 2019
20 Chile 47.21 2019
21 Fiji 46.53 2019
22 Samoa 46.14 2019
23 Nicaragua 45.94 2019
24 Barbados 45.88 2016
25 Uganda 45.33 2019
26 Latvia 44.73 2019
27 Morocco 44.70 2019
28 Uzbekistan 44.62 2019
29 Mali 43.93 2019
30 Bosnia and Herzegovina 43.68 2019
31 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 43.46 2017
32 Tanzania 43.01 2018
33 Burkina Faso 42.81 2019
34 Cameroon 42.67 2018
35 Jordan 42.59 2019
36 Bulgaria 41.31 2019
37 Zimbabwe 41.23 2018
38 Togo 40.89 2019
39 India 40.87 2018
40 North Macedonia 40.82 2019
41 Thailand 40.70 2019
42 El Salvador 40.70 2019
43 Madagascar 40.46 2019
44 Serbia 40.41 2019
45 Ukraine 40.37 2019
46 Finland 38.73 2019
47 Côte d'Ivoire 38.37 2019
48 Burundi 37.99 1999
49 Malawi 37.78 2020
50 Sweden 37.65 2019
51 Estonia 37.61 2019
52 Hungary 37.55 2019
53 Iceland 36.41 2019
54 Turkey 36.33 2020
55 Poland 36.18 2019
56 Kenya 36.13 2019
57 Indonesia 35.94 2019
58 Peru 35.59 2019
59 Paraguay 35.44 2019
60 Zambia 35.34 2019
61 St. Lucia 34.80 2017
62 Senegal 34.58 2018
63 Kyrgyz Republic 34.54 2019
64 Slovenia 34.41 2019
65 Denmark 33.90 2019
66 Romania 33.89 2019
67 Malta 33.69 2019
68 Lithuania 33.60 2019
69 Israel 33.58 2019
70 Greece 33.53 2019
71 United Kingdom 33.23 2019
72 Cyprus 33.09 2019
73 Portugal 32.92 2019
74 Vanuatu 32.64 2019
75 China 32.64 2018
76 Panama 32.53 2018
77 Lesotho 32.33 2019
78 Bangladesh 32.25 2016
79 Ghana 32.13 2019
80 Mongolia 31.64 2018
81 Ethiopia 31.19 2019
82 Mexico 31.11 2019
83 South Africa 30.87 2019
84 Lebanon 30.74 2019
85 Tunisia 30.51 2012
86 Ireland 30.34 2019
87 Slovak Republic 29.95 2019
88 Argentina 29.87 2019
89 Cabo Verde 29.51 2017
90 Mozambique 29.46 2019
91 New Zealand 28.76 2019
92 Rwanda 28.74 2019
93 Czech Republic 28.43 2019
94 Papua New Guinea 28.39 2019
95 Switzerland 28.33 2019
96 The Gambia 28.29 1990
97 Uruguay 28.14 2019
98 Netherlands 27.70 2019
99 Spain 27.45 2019
100 Philippines 27.43 2019
101 Costa Rica 27.13 2019
102 Luxembourg 27.11 2019
103 Belarus 26.94 2019
104 Belgium 26.86 2019
105 Austria 26.54 2019
106 Kazakhstan 26.53 2019
107 Colombia 26.49 2019
108 Egypt 26.11 2015
109 Jamaica 25.97 2019
110 Norway 25.23 2019
111 Myanmar 24.41 2019
112 St. Kitts and Nevis 24.33 2017
113 Italy 24.26 2019
114 Bhutan 24.21 2018
115 France 23.47 2019
116 Guinea-Bissau 23.41 2019
117 Palau 22.52 2019
118 Russia 22.16 2019
119 Germany 21.01 2019
120 Niger 20.94 1980
121 Namibia 20.92 2019
122 Guinea 20.48 1992
123 Korea 19.90 2019
124 Australia 19.45 2019
125 San Marino 19.28 2019
126 Brazil 19.04 2019
127 Trinidad and Tobago 18.46 2018
128 Malaysia 18.23 2019
129 Singapore 18.11 2019
130 Azerbaijan 18.05 2019
131 United Arab Emirates 17.49 2019
132 Saudi Arabia 16.55 2019
133 Botswana 15.79 2019
134 Japan 14.45 1993
135 Canada 13.42 2019
136 Solomon Islands 12.64 2020
137 Kiribati 12.56 2019
138 Congo 12.37 2018
139 Central African Republic 11.62 2018
140 Gabon 10.62 2019
141 Afghanistan 8.60 2017
142 Benin 8.50 1979
143 Equatorial Guinea 7.83 2019
144 Somalia 7.30 2019
145 Angola 5.45 2019
146 Timor-Leste 4.50 2019
147 Iran 3.52 2009
148 Bahrain 2.45 2004
149 United States 2.28 2020
150 Nauru 1.71 2018
151 Iraq 0.35 2019
152 Kuwait 0.03 1998

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Limitations and Exceptions: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Despite IMF efforts to standardize data collection, statistics are often incomplete, untimely, and not comparable across countries.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The IMF's Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014, harmonized with the 2008 SNA, recommends an accrual accounting method, focusing on all economic events affecting assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, not just those represented by cash transactions. It accounts for all changes in stocks, so stock data at the end of an accounting period equal stock data at the beginning of the period plus flows over the period. The 1986 manual considered only debt stocks. Government finance statistics are reported in local currency. Many countries report government finance data by fiscal year; see country metadata for information on fiscal year end by country.

Aggregation method: Median

Periodicity: Annual