Revenue Statistics 2020 - Greece Tax-to-GDP ratio Tax-to-GDP ratio over time The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in Greece decreased by 0.2 percentage points from 38.9% in 2018 to 38.7% in 2019. Between 2018 and 2019 the OECD average decreased from 33.9% to 33.8%. The tax-to-GDP ratio in Greece has increased from 33.4% in 2000 to 38.7% in 2019. Over the same period, the OECD average in 2019 was slightly above that in 2000 (33.8% compared with 33.3%). During that period the highest taxto-GDP ratio in Greece was 38.9% in 2018, with the lowest being 30.5% in 2004.
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Greece
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38.7 33.8
Tax-to-GDP ratio compared to the OECD, 2019 Greece ranked 12th out of 37 OECD countries in terms of the tax-to-GDP ratio in 2019. In 2019, Greece had a tax-to-GDP ratio of 38.7% compared with the OECD average of 33.8%. In 2018, Greece was ranked 10th out of the 37 OECD countries in terms of the tax-to-GDP ratio. %#N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A
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46.3 45.4 42.9 42.9 42.4 42.4 42.2
39.9 39.3 39.2 38.8 38.7
37.7
36.1 35.8 35.4 34.9 34.8 34.7 34.6 33.8 33.5 33.1 33.0 32.3 32.0 31.2 30.5 30.3
25 20 15
28.7 28.5
27.4 24.5
23.1 22.7
20.7 19.7 16.5
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* Australia and Japan are unable to provide provisional 2019 data, therefore their latest 2018 data are presented within this country note. In the OECD classification the term “taxes” is confined to compulsory unrequited payments to general government. Taxes are unrequited in the sense that benefits provided by government to taxpayers are not normally in proportion to their payments.