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Sri Lanka: General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2025 · 26 observations · gen_govtax_GDP

2025
15.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+3.0 pointsfrom 12.4%
Average, 2016–2025
10.5%10 years
Record high and low
15.4% (2025)low 7.28% (2022)

General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202515.4
202412.4
20239.92
20227.28
20217.37
20207.78
201910.9
201811.2
201711.6
201611.4

Sources

  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2024
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025

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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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