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Taxes on goods and services, Ratio of this level of government's revenue from this item to total general government revenue from this item, Percent (Central government) by country

The Fiscal Decentralization dataset includes fiscal decentralization indicators for a sample of IMF member countries. The following indicators are included in the dataset: Revenue and Expenditure Decentralization Shares; Transfer dependency and Vertical Fiscal Imbalances; Deficit and Debt; Allocation of...

Countries reporting
80
Highest
1
Kenya
Lowest
0.103
United States
Median
0.9738
Years covered
47
1974–2020
Data points
1,545

What the numbers show

Taxes on goods and services, Ratio of this level of government's revenue from this item to total general government revenue from this item, Percent (Central government) is currently reported for 80 countries. The highest value is 1 in Kenya; the lowest is 0.103 in United States.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9738, and the mean is 0.8886.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 10.

Over the past decade 35 countries rose and 36 fell. The largest increase was in United Arab Emirates (up 10,685.3%), and the largest decrease in France (down 23.3%).

Taxes on goods and services, Ratio of this level of government's: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Kenya 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Honduras 1 2015 unchanged flat
1 Ireland 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Georgia 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Denmark 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Peru 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Sweden 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Malta 1 2020 unchanged flat
1 Marshall Islands 1 2018 unchanged flat
10 Afghanistan 1 2017 down 0.0% flat
11 Finland 1 2020 up 0.0% flat
12 Mauritius 0.9997 2020 up 0.8% flat
13 United Kingdom 0.999 2020 down 0.1% flat
14 Senegal 0.9988 2020 up 0.6% flat
15 El Salvador 0.9976 2020 up 10.1% flat
16 Latvia 0.9975 2020 up 0.2% flat
17 Uganda 0.9974 2020 down 0.3% flat
18 Palau 0.9971 2019 up 0.9% flat
19 Estonia 0.9967 2020 up 0.5% flat
20 Cyprus 0.9962 2020 up 0.5% flat
21 Norway 0.9962 2020 up 0.1% flat
22 Luxembourg 0.9959 2020 down 0.1% flat
23 Cape Verde 0.9955 2016 up 2.7% flat
24 Lithuania 0.995 2020 down 0.1% flat
25 Armenia 0.9936 2020 down 1.0% flat
26 Greece 0.9926 2020 up 1.7% flat
27 Rwanda 0.9925 2020 down 0.7% flat
28 Slovakia 0.9925 2020 up 2.0% flat
29 Azerbaijan 0.9915 2019 up 0.9% flat
30 Bulgaria 0.9897 2020 up 0.2% flat
31 Turkey 0.9892 2020 up 0.4% flat
32 Netherlands 0.987 2020 up 0.1% flat
33 Mexico 0.9853 2020 down 0.5% flat
34 Iceland 0.9814 2020 down 0.4% flat
35 Slovenia 0.98 2020 up 0.5% flat
36 Austria 0.9798 2020 up 0.3% flat
37 Moldova 0.978 2020 up 1.7% rising
38 Poland 0.9766 2020 up 1.0% flat
39 Myanmar 0.9764 2019 down 0.6% flat
40 Serbia 0.9741 2020 up 0.5% flat
41 Paraguay 0.9735 2020 down 1.1% flat
42 Kiribati 0.9728 2020 up 1,350.4% rising
43 Guatemala 0.9704 2020 up 0.4% flat
44 Kyrgyzstan 0.9676 2019 up 5.0% rising
45 Ukraine 0.9644 2020 up 0.8% rising
46 Croatia 0.9625 2020 up 0.5% flat
47 Costa Rica 0.9493 2020 down 0.7% flat
48 Israel 0.9477 2020 down 0.0% flat
49 Albania 0.9476 2020 down 2.7% flat
50 Romania 0.9425 2020 down 3.2% falling
51 Mongolia 0.9386 2020 down 4.0% flat
52 North Macedonia 0.9252 2020 down 3.8% flat
53 Chile 0.9151 2020 down 1.3% flat
54 Switzerland 0.915 2020 down 0.6% flat
55 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.9016 2020 down 0.8% flat
56 Russia 0.9001 2020 up 4.3% flat
57 Hungary 0.8954 2020 up 2.7% flat
58 South Africa 0.8914 2020 down 3.4% falling
59 Uzbekistan 0.8815 2020 up 29.3% rising
60 Portugal 0.8747 2020 down 2.4% flat
61 Thailand 0.8665 2020 down 3.2% flat
62 Kazakhstan 0.8408 2020 down 5.1% falling
63 Italy 0.8245 2020 up 11.5% flat
64 Indonesia 0.8047 2020 down 4.7% falling
65 Czechia 0.7793 2020 down 4.0% falling
66 Belgium 0.777 2020 down 4.2% falling
67 Spain 0.7741 2020 up 6.1% rising
68 Belarus 0.7593 2020 up 5.8% rising
69 Colombia 0.7541 2020 up 2.5% falling
70 Iran 0.7378 2009 down 9.1% falling
71 Japan 0.73 2020 up 3.7% flat
72 Australia 0.6789 2020 down 3.8% rising
73 South Korea 0.6672 2020 down 15.3% falling
74 Germany 0.584 2020 down 12.2% falling
75 France 0.5567 2020 down 23.3% falling
76 China 0.4908 2020 down 10.9% falling
77 Brazil 0.3708 2020 down 18.4% falling
78 Canada 0.3502 2020 down 0.2% falling
79 United Arab Emirates 0.2793 2020 up 10,685.3% volatile
80 United States 0.103 2020 down 7.9% falling

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Indicator
Taxes on goods and services, Ratio of this level of government's revenue from this item to total general government revenue from this item, Percent (Central government)
Source
International Monetary Fund
Licence
IMF Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
80 places, 1,545 data points, 1974–2020
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The Fiscal Decentralization dataset includes fiscal decentralization indicators for a sample of IMF member countries. The following indicators are included in the dataset: Revenue and Expenditure Decentralization Shares; Transfer dependency and Vertical Fiscal Imbalances; Deficit and Debt; Allocation of expenditure (economic classification); Allocation of expenditure (functional classification); Allocation of non-Tax Revenues; and Allocation of Taxes.