The table demonstrates the changes in the proportion of tax collected in five different nations over four years, from 1975 to 2005.
The overall trend is that Sweden showed the highest figures during this time frame, while the rest witnessed an upward trend throughout the period. Furthermore, Japan and Turkey experienced a notable increase in 2005.
As can be seen from the table, the Sweden percentage stood at 46% and 47% in 1975 and 1985 before surging to a half in the next ten-year period. What stands out is the considerable increase by one-fifth, peaking at 70% by the end of the period. Turning to Japan and Turkey, which shared quite similar data in the first thirty years, the former figure doubled from 15% in 1975 to 32.1% in 2005, while the latter figure grew modestly from 16.4% to roughly thirty percent.
Looking more closely at the figures for the USA, it can be easily recognised that its data showed a bit of fluctuation and increased by 2% throughout the time frame. By contrast, Korea’s figure rocketed from 15.1% to 27% in the first ten-year period and nearly remained unchanged until 2005 at 27.3%. Although starting at roughly two times lower than the proportion of the USA, Korea’s figure eventually matched that of the USA.