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Nicaragua: Government tax revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1960–2017 · 57 observations · govtax_GDP

2017
16.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2016
+0.2 pointsfrom 16.3%
Average, 2008–2017
14.8%10 years
Record high and low
32.4% (1984)low 8.44% (1969)

Government tax revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
201716.5
201616.3
201515.8
201415.3
201315.0
201215.0
201114.5
201013.7
200913.1
200813.2

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

Nicaragua 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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