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United States: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
32.5%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom 31.7%
Average, 2016–2025
32.6%10 years
Record high and low
34.8% (2022)low 0.505% (1843)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203132.3Forecast
203032.2Forecast
202932.0Forecast
202832.0Forecast
202732.2Forecast
202632.2Forecast
202532.5
202431.7
202331.5
202234.8
202133.5
202032.4
201931.7
201831.7
201733.4
201632.8

Sources

  • IMF Fiscal Policy Panel1800–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1980–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2001–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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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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