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Australia: General government revenue (% of GDP)

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

2025
36.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.2 pointsfrom 36.2%
Average, 2016–2025
35.5%10 years
Record high and low
36.7% (1999)low 2.50% (1904)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203136.2Forecast
203036.2Forecast
202936.2Forecast
202836.1Forecast
202736.4Forecast
202636.3Forecast
202536.0
202436.2
202336.4
202235.4
202135.7
202035.6
201934.8
201835.1
201735.2
201634.7

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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