Countries That Collect the Least Tax 2024
Key Findings
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Countries That Collect the Least Tax 2024United Arab Emirates (0.65), Somalia (2.24) and Ethiopia (3.40) record the three lowest figures. Across the twenty shown, values run from 0.65 up to 12.63, a spread of 11.98. Somalia, the next country up, records 3.45 times the figure for United Arab Emirates. No other country in the table is within double the lowest figure of 0.65. The chart shows the twenty lowest of 89 reporting countries, so it describes the bottom of the distribution rather than the world average. Countries recorded as zero are left out: the World Bank writes zero where a country did not report.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2024 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Tax Revenue (% of GDP)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
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- Entities are ranked lowest-first, because on this measure a lower number is the better result.
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