The table gives information about the amount of tax collected in five countries for 4 hears between 1975 and 2005.

The table illustrates how much tax was collected in five major

countries

in the years 1975,1985,1995 and 2005. The

overall

message from the data seems to be that the highest tax rate was shown by

Sweden

in all

countries

with the

USA

and

Japan

also

displaying a notable pattern.

To begin

with,

Sweden

and the

USA

were the

countries

with the highest proportion.

Sweden

started with 46% in 1975 ,which saw a gradual increase over the next two decades, reaching 51% in 1995,

while

the

USA

collected taxes almost twice as low as the figure for

Sweden

,

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27.1%. Meanwhile, in the

last

year,

Sweden

topped the list at 70.1% compared to other

countries

,

while

the

USA

's statistic remained relatively steady at 27.4%.

Similarly

, looking at the other three

countries

, all of them showed similar proportions and alternations.

Korea

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and

Japan

had similar tax rates of about 15-16% in 1975.

Whereas

Japan

grew marginally by 16%,

Korea

's figure nearly doubled after 10 years. Over the period,

Korea

,

Japan

and Turkey continued to increase. In 2005, statistics for

Korea

and Turkey were 27.3% and 27.4%, respectively.

However

,

Japan

’s rate rose slightly higher than both

countries

, reaching 32.1%

at the end

of the period.