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: 2023-01-23
Last updated by source: 2023-01-22


Categories:

Public Economy


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2024 Basic Time-series - 2024 OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 140
Basic time-series: 161
Standard cross-section: 140
Standard time-series: 161
OECD cross-section: 37
OECD time-series: 39

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1972-2021
Basic time-series: 1972-2021
OECD time-series: 1972-2021

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