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Belgium: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1835–2025 · 170 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
49.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.7 pointsfrom 49.7%
Average, 2016–2025
49.9%10 years
Record high and low
52.7% (2013)low 3.83% (1873)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203149.4Forecast
203049.2Forecast
202949.2Forecast
202848.9Forecast
202748.8Forecast
202649.0Forecast
202549.0
202449.7
202348.7
202248.9
202149.5
202049.4
201949.7
201851.4
201751.5
201650.9

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1835–2023
  • GPIH government budgets1880–1975
  • OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1978–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • Eurostat1995–2025
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • 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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