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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
33.4%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+1.0 pointsfrom 32.4%
Average, 2016–2025
32.9%10 years
Record high and low
35.4% (2022)low 0.505% (1843)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203133.3Forecast
203033.3Forecast
202933.1Forecast
202833.1Forecast
202733.4Forecast
202633.5Forecast
202533.4
202432.4
202332.4
202235.4
202133.4
202032.4
201931.6
201831.7
201733.4
201632.7

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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