Spending, revenue and debt of general government as a share of GDP.
Income tax plus employee and employer contributions, as a share of what the employer pays in total. Only people in work, so no pensioners or people on benefits. VAT, excise, local levies and mandatory pension premiums are not included. OECD countries only.
Disability, unemployment, social assistance and survivor benefits (CBS, yearly average), as a share of the labour force (ILO). One person can receive two benefits, so this slightly overstates people.
Net migration per year (bars) and the share of residents born abroad (dots, UN estimates every few years).
People aged 65 and over per 100 people aged 15 to 64, against the world median.
People employed by general government (central, regional, local and social security, so including teachers and care staff in public service), per 1,000 residents, against the median of the countries that report it.
Worked out from the data each time the page loads. Medians are across the countries that report the indicator in that year.
Latest value per indicator, the value about 25 years earlier, and where the country stands among all countries (percentile: 100 is the highest value in the world).
| Indicator | Theme | Latest | Year | 25 years earlier | Year | World percentile | Unit |
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The grey band is the middle half of all countries with data (25th to 75th percentile), the dashed line the world median.
Click a row to make it the selected country.
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Median per region with the range of the middle half of its countries.
Each dot is a country in the chosen year, sized by population and coloured by region. Rank correlation (Spearman) is robust to outliers and skew; Pearson measures a straight-line fit. Correlation is not causation: rich countries differ from poor ones in many ways at once.
Rank correlation between the same two indicators, year by year (only years with at least 15 countries).
Pairs with the highest absolute rank correlation in the chosen year, at least 40 countries. Click a row to plot it.
| Indicator | With | Rank corr. | Countries |
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Rank correlation of every pair in the chosen year. Blue moves together, orange moves opposite. Click a cell to plot that pair.
Both model estimates as a share of official GDP. Selected country highlighted.
Tax burden as a share of official GDP and of official plus estimated shadow GDP (average of both models), same year.
Line from the lower to the higher of the two estimates, sorted by their average.
Refreshed yearly with fetch.py. Years run to the last complete year a source publishes.
| Key | Indicator | Theme | Unit | From | To | Countries | Source |
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