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Lesotho: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1982–2025 · 44 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
56.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−4.3 pointsfrom 60.6%
Average, 2016–2025
51.1%10 years
Record high and low
62.7% (2012)low 27.9% (1982)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203157.1Forecast
203057.2Forecast
202957.2Forecast
202857.4Forecast
202757.5Forecast
202656.8Forecast
202556.4
202460.6
202356.4
202244.4
202148.9
202055.6
201947.8
201847.5
201748.4
201644.7

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1982–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1982–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2003–2007
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Lesotho documentation (PDF)

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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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