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Zambia: General government revenue (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 2000–2025 · 26 observations · forecasts to 2031 · gen_govrev_GDP

2025
25.9%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+2.8 pointsfrom 23.1%
Average, 2016–2025
20.9%10 years
Record high and low
36.6% (2006)low 15.6% (2010)

General government revenue (% of GDP)

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203127.1Forecast
203026.7Forecast
202926.6Forecast
202826.0Forecast
202724.7Forecast
202624.8Forecast
202525.9
202423.1
202321.9
202220.4
202122.4
202020.3
201920.4
201819.4
201717.5
201618.2

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • 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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