Variable: Tax revenue (% of GDP)

QoG Code: (wdi_taxrev)


Dataset: World Development Indicators

Description:

Tax revenue refers to compulsory transfers to the central government for public purposes. Certain compulsory transfers such as fines, penalties, and most social security contributions are excluded. Refunds and corrections of erroneously collected tax revenue are treated as negative revenue.

Note: The value for San Marino for 1995 was extremely high (44326) and has been recoded to missing.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2024-11-20
Last updated by source: 2024-10-28


Categories:

Public Economy


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2025 Basic Time-series - 2025 OECD Cross-section - 2025 OECD Time-series - 2025 Standard Cross-section - 2025 Standard Time-series - 2025 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 141
Basic time-series: 160
Standard cross-section: 141
Standard time-series: 160
OECD cross-section: 31
OECD time-series: 32

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1972-2023
Basic time-series: 1972-2023
OECD time-series: 1972-2023

This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1972 to the year 2021