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Denmark: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1872–2025 · 147 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
51.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom 51.6%
Average, 2016–2025
52.0%10 years
Record high and low
56.5% (2014)low 4.41% (1909)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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0%10%20%30%40%50%60%18801900192019401960198020002020DenmarkDenmark, 1872: 6.33%Denmark
ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203150.8Forecast
203050.7Forecast
202950.6Forecast
202850.6Forecast
202750.3Forecast
202650.5Forecast
202551.1
202451.6
202350.9
202248.5
202153.8
202053.7
201954.1
201851.6
201752.3
201652.7

Sources

  • GPIH government budgets1872–1975
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1971–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2024
  • 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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