Iran: General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

Name: Iran: General government tax revenue (% of GDP)
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Percent of GDP · 1980–2009 · 19 observations · gen_govtax_GDP

2009: 10.0%percent of GDP
Change on 2008: +1.4 pointsfrom 8.57%
Average, 2001–2009: 8.06%9 years
Record high and low: 92.1% (1988)low 6.84% (2002)

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Percent of GDP

Year	Value
2009	10.0
2008	8.57
2007	8.12
2006	8.17
2005	8.74
2004	7.20
2003	7.21
2002	6.84
2001	7.65
1989	89.4

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IMF Government Finance Statistics1980–2009

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Iran documentation (PDF)

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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