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Yemen: General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2002–2021 · 20 observations · gen_govtax_GDP

2021
2.51%percent of GDP
Change on 2020
−1.8 pointsfrom 4.35%
Average, 2012–2021
5.70%10 years
Record high and low
10.9% (2004)low 1.22% (2017)

General government tax revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
20212.51
20204.35
20193.97
20182.90
20171.22
20168.67
20158.27
20148.21
20138.39
20128.52

Sources

  • IMF Government Finance Statistics2002–2012
  • Arab Monetary Fund2013–2021

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Yemen 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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