Countries with the Highest Top Income Tax Rate 2025
About This Dataset
Countries with the Highest Top Income Tax Rate 2025
Countries ranked by their highest marginal income tax rate applied to top earners in 2025. Several European nations, particularly in Scandinavia, apply marginal tax rates above 55% to high earners, reflecting their social democratic model of funding extensive public services through progressive taxation.
Analysis
Ivory Coast (60), Finland (57) and Japan (56) take the top three in Top Marginal Income Tax Rate (%) in 2025. Values run from 60 at the top to 50 at the bottom, a spread of 10. First and second are separated by 3, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 56 down to 50.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Ivory Coast leads in Top Marginal Income Tax Rate (%) with 60 in 2025.
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Average Top Marginal Income Tax Rate (%) in 2025: 55 · median: 55.
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Gap in 2025: Ivory Coast is 1.2× larger than Belgium.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2025 · 8 observations
- Measure
- Top Marginal Income Tax Rate (%)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
Data Sources & References
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