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The Official Journal of the Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS)

Table 1 Tax revenues as % of GDP in Europe

From: Public debt dynamics: the interaction with national income and fiscal policy

Tax revenues as % of GDP

Countries

Rank 2006

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Rank 2018

Greece

22

31.0

31.8

31.8

30.8

32.0

33.6

35.8

35.7

36.0

36.4

38.4

38.6

38.9

10

Spain

14

36.0

36.5

32.2

29.7

31.3

31.2

32.4

33.2

33.9

33.9

33.7

34.0

34.7

18

Portugal

16

31.4

31.9

31.7

29.8

30.4

32.2

31.7

34.0

34.2

34.4

34.1

34.1

34.9

17

Germany

9

37.6

37.8

38.1

38.7

37.3

37.7

38.4

38.5

38.3

38.7

39.2

39.6

40.1

8

UK

11

33.6

33.7

34.5

32.2

33.3

33.8

33.0

32.8

32.5

32.8

33.3

33.7

33.8

21

Cyprus

13

32.1

36.1

34.8

31.8

31.7

31.7

31.7

31.8

33.8

33.2

32.4

33.3

33.8

20

Italy

6

40.0

41.3

41.1

41.5

41.2

41.1

43.1

43.2

42.9

42.8

42.1

41.8

41.8

7

Belgium

3

43.6

43.3

44.0

43.2

43.6

44.4

45.3

46.0

45.7

45.0

44.2

44.7

44.8

3

Bulgaria

18

29.7

31.6

30.7

27.1

26.1

25.4

26.7

28.4

28.4

29.1

29.1

29.4

29.9

26

Czechia

15

33.9

34.5

33.2

32.2

32.7

33.8

34.2

34.8

33.9

34.0

34.8

35.4

36.1

15

Denmark

1

46.5

46.4

44.8

45.0

45.0

45.0

45.8

46.3

48.9

46.4

45.9

46.0

45.1

2

Esthonia

23

30.5

31.0

31.2

34.8

32.9

31.2

31.5

31.5

31.9

33.1

33.6

32.6

32.8

22

Ireland

21

31.4

30.8

29.0

28.1

27.8

28.2

28.4

28.8

28.9

23.3

23.5

22.7

22.6

28

France

4

43.3

42.7

42.6

42.2

42.3

43.4

44.5

45.5

45.7

45.7

45.7

46.4

46.5

1

Croatia

-

36.8

37.0

36.9

36.4

36.0

35.2

35.9

36.4

36.7

37.3

37.8

37.8

38.6

12

Latvia

24

28.8

28.3

28.0

27.6

28.4

28.3

29.1

29.3

29.6

29.9

31.0

31.3

31.0

24

Lithuania

25

30.1

30.0

30.6

30.2

28.4

27.2

27.0

26.9

27.5

29.0

29.7

29.5

30.2

25

Luxembourg

17

35.8

36.3

36.9

38.4

37.6

37.2

38.4

38.3

37.5

37.1

36.9

37.7

39.3

9

Hungary

12

36.5

39.4

39.5

39.0

37.2

36.6

39.2

38.7

38.6

39.0

39.5

38.4

37.6

14

Malta

20

32.0

32.8

32.1

32.4

31.9

32.2

32.4

32.6

32.4

30.7

31.2

31.9

31.8

23

Netherlands

8

36.0

35.5

35.9

35.1

35.5

35.5

35.6

36.1

37.0

36.9

38.4

38.7

38.7

11

Austria

7

40.6

40.7

41.5

41.1

41.1

41.2

41.9

42.7

42.8

43.2

41.9

41.8

42.3

5

Poland

19

33.6

34.6

34.1

31.2

31.4

31.8

32.0

31.9

31.9

32.4

33.4

34.1

35.2

16

Romania

27

28.7

28.4

26.8

25.2

26.4

28.3

27.8

27.4

27.5

28.1

25.9

24.9

26.3

27

Slovenia

10

38.7

38.0

37.5

37.3

38.0

37.6

37.9

37.5

37.4

37.6

37.7

37.4

37.6

13

Slovakia

26

29.3

29.1

29.0

28.8

28.1

29.0

28.6

30.9

31.8

32.5

33.1

34.1

34.1

19

Finland

5

42.1

41.4

41.1

40.8

40.6

41.8

42.4

43.4

43.5

43.5

43.7

43.0

42.2

6

Sweden

2

46.2

45.2

44.2

43.8

42.9

42.1

42.2

42.7

42.3

42.7

44.1

44.1

43.8

4

Iceland

–

40.2

38.7

34.6

31.3

32.4

33.3

34.0

34.5

37.3

35.4

50.8

37.6

36.9

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Norway

–

42.8

42.2

41.4

41.3

42.0

42.1

41.6

40.0

38.9

38.6

39.1

38.9

40.0

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