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Japan: General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1994–2024 · 31 observations · gen_govtax_GDP

2024
21.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2023
+0.3 pointsfrom 21.1%
Average, 2015–2024
19.9%10 years
Record high and low
21.9% (2022)low 15.1% (2003)

General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202421.4
202321.1
202221.9
202121.0
202019.9
201918.9
201819.1
201718.7
201618.3
201518.6

Sources

  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1994–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2024

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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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