Burkina Faso
Tax revenue (% of GDP)

Taxes are compulsory, unrequited payments, in cash or in kind, made by institutional units to government units. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period.

Global rank#42out of 89 countries
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Historical trend

18.716.414.211.99.7200220132024Burkina Faso · 2024: 18.68%Burkina Faso

Analytical takeaways

  • Burkina Faso records 18.68% for Tax revenue (% of GDP) in 2024, ranking #42 globally out of 89 countries.
  • Tax revenue (% of GDP) increased from 9.66% in 2002 to 18.68% in 2024, a gain of 9.02%.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

Comparison

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