United States Tax Revenue

The United States recorded tax revenue equal to 11.40 percent of GDP in 2025, placing it 99th in the global ranking and slightly below Paraguay’s 11.46 percent and Cambodia’s 11.31 percent. Over the 54‑year series beginning in 1972, the share fell from an early high of 11.82 percent to an all‑time trough of 7.90 percent during the post‑financial‑crisis year of 2009, before reaching its peak of 12.97 percent in 2000. The post‑2000 decline reflects a combination of fiscal stimulus, demographic shifts and evolving tax policy, while the modest rebound after 2009 coincides with the gradual recovery of corporate profits and personal incomes. Compared with peers such as Czechia, which posted 10.96 percent, the United States remains above the median but has not regained its early‑century maximum. Continued pressure from demographic ageing and potential reforms to corporate and income taxation will shape whether the tax‑revenue ratio resumes an upward trajectory or stabilises at its current level.