4-10 CENTRAL GOVERNMENT REVENUE AS PERCENTAGE

OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS

Unit: %

Country or Area	1980	1985	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
China①	24.28	21.89	18.67	18.43	18.74	17.84	17.03	16.23	11.20
United States	20.85	19.94	20.01	20.22	19.86	19.84	19.61	19.72	20.06
Japan④	12.05②	12.43	13.82	13.87	14.38	22.92	21.42	21.39
Germany⑤	28.54	30.19	28.89	29.48	28.77	30.53
United Kingdom	35.10	37.45	35.92	35.45	36.84	36.94	36.04	34.90
France	39.63	41.75	40.85	40.51	40.54	40.82	40.60	40.51	37.85
Canada	17.90	18.74	19.30	20.12	20.73	20.93	20.79
Australia	24.85	35.09	35.38	34.81	34.76	35.07	36.49	36.71
Hungary	53.61②	52.14	55.04	54.16	53.18
Czech Rep.③				56.83	49.33	50.05	41.71	42.28	41.02
Romania	45.28	44.15	42.48	48.29	34.73	37.33	36.78	33.92
Former Yugoslavia	8.12	7.17	7.66	4.27
India	11.85	13.77	14.08	14.78	13.51	14.48	14.29	13.56
Indonesia	21.40	20.67	16.23	16.69	19.44	18.01	18.26	16.48
Thailand	14.99	15.69	16.82	17.79	19.20	19.70	18.44	18.45	19.10
Malaysia	26.35	30.15	25.73	25.72	27.14	28.73	28.81	28.01	28.83
Singapore	25.31	37.92	27.88	28.24	31.09	30.32	31.85	35.14
Myanmar	16.00	13.61	8.48	9.50	10.56	9.66	8.14	7.78
Korea	17.96	16.97	17.19	17.40	17.87	17.07	18.22	19.00	20.04
Egypt	47.07②	36.74	32.33	29.43	24.39	31.86	35.71
Mexico	15.78	16.50	17.28	18.29	14.05
Brazil	22.18	26.34	20.06	25.57	33.29	27.24	27.99
Argentina	21.17	15.62	9.26	9.85	10.82

① Refer to government revenue as % of GNP.

② Data refer to 1981.

③ Data prior to 1993 refer to the former Czechoslovakia.

④ The data prior to 1991 are incomparable with those thereafter.

⑤ Data prior to 1991 refer to the Western Germany.