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France: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1850–2025 · 138 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
52.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.9 pointsfrom 51.2%
Average, 2016–2025
52.9%10 years
Record high and low
54.3% (2017)low 10.5% (1919)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203152.5Forecast
203052.4Forecast
202952.3Forecast
202852.1Forecast
202751.9Forecast
202652.1Forecast
202552.1
202451.2
202351.4
202253.7
202152.9
202052.8
201953.0
201854.0
201754.3
201653.6

Sources

  • GPIH government budgets1850–1975
  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1880–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1978–2024
  • AMECO (European Commission)1978–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2024
  • 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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