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Egypt, Arab Rep. Government Revenue

Egypt, Arab Rep. government revenue: latest available value for 2015, historical series from 1975, ranking context and source documentation.

Outdated The newest observation is from 2015 and exceeds the maximum data age. Excluded from the Economy sitemap

Series overview

GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS

COUNTRY: Egypt, Arab Rep.INDICATOR: GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZSUNIT: percent of GDPSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-27 09:20:46REVISIONS: 6ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

20,99Latest / 2015

1,11Change from previous

30,27Series average

101Global rank / 162

Egypt, Arab Rep. / Government Revenue Unit: Percent of GDP (%)

Selected year: 201520,99%

197520152015

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Year	Value	Change
2015	20,99	1,11
2014	19,88	-1,54
2013	21,42	1,19
2012	20,23	-1,70
2011	21,93	-2,85
2010	24,78	-2,14
2009	26,92	-0,70
2008	27,62	0,51
2007	27,12	-1,02
2006	28,14	3,85
2005	24,29	-0,35
2004	24,64	-0,79
2003	25,43	1,08
2002	24,35	-1,66
1997	26,01	-2,66
1996	28,66	-6,11
1995	34,77	-2,14
1994	36,91	2,08
1993	34,83	2,18
1992	32,65	3,26
1991	29,39	6,35
1990	23,05	-4,65
1989	27,69	-3,00
1988	30,70	0,60
1987	30,10	-3,55
1986	33,65	-1,27
1985	34,92	-2,89
1984	37,82	-2,09
1983	39,90	-0,67
1982	40,57	-7,56
1981	48,13	13,70
1979	34,43	-3,61
1978	38,04	-1,44
1977	39,48	6,65
1976	32,83	-4,58
1975	37,41	—

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: 2026-09-27 03:53:47. Open original metadata response.

Revision history

6 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
2026-09-27 07:20:46	2010	24,78	24,78	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-27 07:20:46	2011	21,93	21,93	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-27 07:20:46	2012	20,23	20,23	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-27 07:20:46	2013	21,42	21,42	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-27 07:20:46	2014	19,88	19,88	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-27 07:20:46	2015	20,99	20,99	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Egypt, Arab Rep. recorded 20,99 percent of GDP in 2015, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2014, the government revenue increased by 1,11.

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

Across 36 observations from 1975 to 2015, the average was 30,27; the minimum was 19,88 in 2014 and the maximum was 48,13 in 1981.

Egypt, Arab Rep. ranks 101 out of 162 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 below the available average for the Lower middle income group.

Fiscal revenue capacity.

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