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United States: General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1972–2025 · 54 observations · gen_govtax_GDP

2025
20.2%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+0.8 pointsfrom 19.4%
Average, 2016–2025
19.8%10 years
Record high and low
22.0% (2022)low 16.7% (2009)

General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
202520.2
202419.4
202319.3
202222.0
202120.7
202019.3
201918.9
201818.7
201720.3
201619.6

Sources

  • IMF Government Finance Statistics1972–2025

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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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