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Hong Kong: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1961–2025 · 65 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
18.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.1 pointsfrom 17.4%
Average, 2016–2025
20.7%10 years
Record high and low
23.7% (2021)low 11.6% (1965)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203120.5Forecast
203020.5Forecast
202920.5Forecast
202820.1Forecast
202719.6Forecast
202617.7Forecast
202518.5
202417.4
202318.1
202221.7
202123.7
202020.7
201920.4
201820.7
201722.9
201622.6

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1961–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1981–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2002–2022
  • Asian Development Bank2002–2023
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2002–2023
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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