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Saudi Arabia: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1991–2025 · 35 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
27.1%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
−4.2 pointsfrom 31.2%
Average, 2016–2025
29.1%10 years
Record high and low
58.0% (2008)low 21.5% (2016)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203124.9Forecast
203025.4Forecast
202925.9Forecast
202826.2Forecast
202726.9Forecast
202627.0Forecast
202527.1
202431.2
202331.1
202232.3
202130.9
202029.6
201930.8
201829.6
201726.8
201621.5

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1991–2023
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1991–2025
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2018–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Saudi Arabia 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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