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Australia: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1850–2025 · 136 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
37.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom 36.7%
Average, 2016–2025
35.8%10 years
Record high and low
37.0% (2023)low 2.50% (1904)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203136.4Forecast
203036.4Forecast
202936.4Forecast
202836.3Forecast
202736.6Forecast
202636.9Forecast
202537.0
202436.7
202337.0
202236.0
202135.9
202035.5
201934.9
201835.2
201735.3
201634.8

Sources

  • Vamplew1850–1860
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1901–2023
  • Foster1962–1995
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2022
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1988–2024
  • OECD Economic Outlook1989–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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