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South Korea: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1953–2025 · 73 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
34.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.9 pointsfrom 33.6%
Average, 2016–2025
33.6%10 years
Record high and low
37.0% (2022)low 8.93% (1957)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203132.7Forecast
203033.0Forecast
202933.3Forecast
202833.4Forecast
202733.7Forecast
202633.4Forecast
202534.5
202433.6
202334.8
202237.0
202135.1
202033.4
201932.9
201832.4
201731.3
201630.9

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1953–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1970–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1995–2024
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2007–2024
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2012–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2012–2024
  • Min. of Economy and Finance, Korea2017–2024
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2024–2031
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027

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South Korea 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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