{"id":661099,"date":"2026-10-29T23:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661099\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:34:23","slug":"eu-and-euro-area-tax-to-gdp-ratio-up-in-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/661099\/","title":{"rendered":"EU and euro area tax-to-GDP ratio up in 2025 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The overall tax-to-GDP ratio (the sum of taxes<\/a> and net social contributions<\/a> as a percentage of gross domestic product<\/a> (GDP)) in the EU<\/a> stood at 40.7% in 2025, up from 40.2% in 2024. In the euro area<\/a> (EA20), the tax-to-GDP ratio also increased from 40.7% in 2024 to 41.3% in 2025.<\/p>\n

In absolute terms, in 2025, revenue from taxes and social contributions increased by \u20ac401 billion to \u20ac7 686 billion compared with 2024.<\/p>\n

This information comes from data on taxation<\/a> published by Eurostat today. This article presents some findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on tax revenue statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Highest tax-to-GDP ratio in France, Belgium and Denmark<\/p>\n

\"revenues<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: gov_10a_taxag<\/a><\/p>\n

The tax-to-GDP ratio varied significantly between EU countries in 2025, with the highest shares of taxes and social contributions as a percentage of GDP recorded in France (46.0%), Belgium (44.7%), Denmark (44.3%) and Austria (43.9%).<\/p>\n

At the opposite end of the scale, Ireland (22.7%), Romania (29.3%), Malta (30.3%) and Bulgaria (30.6%) registered the lowest ratios.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Largest increases of tax-to-GDP ratios in Germany, Malta and Spain\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Change<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: gov_10a_taxag<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2025, compared with 2024, the tax-to-GDP ratio increased in 19 EU countries, with the largest increases observed in Germany (from 40.3% in 2024 to 41.4% in 2025), Malta ( from 29.3% to 30.3%) and Spain (from 37.2% to 38.1%).<\/p>\n

In contrast, there were decreases in the tax-to-GDP ratio in 8 EU countries, with the largest decreases observed in Sweden (from 41.8% in 2024 to 41.2% in 2025) and Latvia (from 34.9% to 34.2%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The overall tax-to-GDP ratio (the sum of taxes and net social contributions as a percentage of gross domestic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,2508,184,20132,16794,85,46],"class_list":["post-661099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-economy-and-finance","tag-gov","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}