COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Benin Tax Revenue
Benin tax revenue: latest available value for 1979, historical series from 1976, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 10,79 | -1,47 |
| 1978 | 12,26 | -0,71 |
| 1977 | 12,97 | -0,08 |
| 1976 | 13,06 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: 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.
Source organization: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 07:20:36. Open original metadata response.
Revision history
12 detected changesSource 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 21:33:29 | 1976 | 13,06 | 13,06 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-29 21:33:29 | 1977 | 12,97 | 12,97 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-29 21:33:29 | 1978 | 12,26 | 12,26 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-29 21:33:29 | 1979 | 10,79 | 10,79 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 19:15:19 | 1976 | 13,06 | 13,06 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 19:15:19 | 1977 | 12,97 | 12,97 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 19:15:19 | 1978 | 12,26 | 12,26 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-09-28 19:15:19 | 1979 | 10,79 | 10,79 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-07 19:05:01 | 1976 | 13,06 | 13,06 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-07 19:05:01 | 1977 | 12,97 | 12,97 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-07 19:05:01 | 1978 | 12,26 | 12,26 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
| 2026-08-07 19:05:01 | 1979 | 10,79 | 10,79 | World Bank Indicators API | 2026-07-13 02:00:00 |
Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesBenin recorded 10,79 percent of GDP in 1979, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 1978, the tax revenue decreased by 1,47.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 4 observations from 1976 to 1979, the average was 12,27; the minimum was 10,79 in 1979 and the maximum was 13,06 in 1976.
Benin ranks 131 out of 161 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Tax capacity and public financing base.