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Australia: General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1850–2025 · 61 observations · gen_govtax_GDP

2025
28.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.3 pointsfrom 28.6%
Average, 2016–2025
27.9%10 years
Record high and low
29.4% (2001)low 1.89% (1850)

General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202528.9
202428.6
202328.0
202227.9
202127.1
202028.0
201928.1
201827.9
201727.0
201627.3

Sources

  • Vamplew1850–1860
  • Foster1972–1994
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2022
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025

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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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