COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Afghanistan Government Revenue

Afghanistan government revenue: latest available value for 2017, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

Incomplete Only 2 observations are available; at least 5 are required. Excluded from the Economy sitemap

Series overview

GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS

COUNTRY: AfghanistanINDICATOR: GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZSUNIT: percent of GDPSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-08-02 08:28:48REVISIONS: 2ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

13,04Latest / 2017

0,36Change from previous

12,86Series average

136Global rank / 150

Afghanistan / Government Revenue Unit: Percent of GDP (%)

Selected year: 201713,04%

201620172017

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Year	Value	Change
2017	13,04	0,36
2016	12,68	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Revenue is an increase in net worth resulting from a transaction. Grants are excluded from this figure. 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.

Source organization: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Metadata fetched: 2026-08-01 01:21:47. Open original metadata response.

Revision history

2 detected changes

Source revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.

Detected	Data year	Previous value	Replacement value	Source	Source update
2026-08-02 06:28:48	2016	12,68	12,68	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-02 06:28:48	2017	13,04	13,04	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Afghanistan recorded 13,04 percent of GDP in 2017, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2016, the government revenue increased by 0,36.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.

Across 2 observations from 2016 to 2017, the average was 12,86; the minimum was 12,68 in 2016 and the maximum was 13,04 in 2017.

Afghanistan ranks 136 out of 150 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is below the available average for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan.

It is also above the available average for the Low income group.

Fiscal revenue capacity.

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