Government Revenue in Europe by Country (2024)
Total general government revenue as a share of GDP across 30 European countries in 2024: Norway highest at 60.5%, Ireland lowest at 26.5%. Eurostat data.
Data
| # | Country | % of GDP | Change vs 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norway | 60.5 | -0.4pp |
| 2 | Finland | 53.4 | +0.4pp |
| 3 | Denmark | 51.6 | +0.7pp |
| 4 | France | 51.2 | -0.2pp |
| 5 | Austria | 50.6 | +0.9pp |
| 6 | Belgium | 49.7 | +1pp |
| 7 | Greece | 49.4 | +1.3pp |
| 8 | Sweden | 48.8 | -0.3pp |
| 9 | Luxembourg | 47.7 | +2pp |
| 10 | Italy | 47 | +0.5pp |
| 11 | Germany | 46.8 | +1.1pp |
| 12 | Croatia | 46.1 | +0.6pp |
| 13 | Slovenia | 45.6 | +1.6pp |
| 14 | Netherlands | 43.6 | -0.1pp |
| 15 | Latvia | 43.5 | +2.4pp |
| 16 | Portugal | 43 | -0.2pp |
| 17 | Iceland | 42.9 | -0.2pp |
| 18 | Estonia | 42.8 | +2.4pp |
| 19 | Poland | 42.8 | +1.1pp |
| 20 | Cyprus | 42.4 | unchanged |
| 21 | Spain | 42.3 | +0.2pp |
| 22 | Hungary | 42.2 | -0.6pp |
| 23 | Slovakia | 42.1 | -1pp |
| 24 | Czechia | 41.2 | +0.9pp |
| 25 | Lithuania | 38.1 | +1.6pp |
| 26 | Bulgaria | 36.1 | -0.8pp |
| 27 | Switzerland | 34.2 | +0.4pp |
| 28 | Romania | 34 | -0.5pp |
| 29 | Malta | 33.8 | +2.5pp |
| 30 | Ireland | 26.5 | +2.9pp |
About this Dataset
General government revenue ranges from 60.5% of GDP in Norway to 26.5% in Ireland. The panel average is 44.0%, +0.7pp on 2023.
Norway's position at the top is petroleum, not policy. Its ratio moves with the oil price, and in a low-price year it falls back toward the Nordic pack.
Below Norway, the ordering is stable and institutional. Finland, Denmark, France and Austria all collect close to or above half of GDP, mostly through high social contributions layered on broad income and consumption tax bases. The central and eastern European members sit in the high thirties to low forties, and their revenue ratios have risen only modestly since accession — a constraint that shows up on the spending side as well. Ireland's 26.5% reflects the same inflated GDP denominator that puts it last on government spending, not an unusually light tax system.
Every row is the figure published for 2024; no value is carried over from an adjacent year to fill a gap. The chart covers the same 30 countries in every year from 2000, so the line moves because the countries moved, not because the sample changed. Revenue is measured on an accrual basis under ESA 2010 and consolidated across all levels of government.
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