COUNTRY / INDICATOR

Tunisia Tax Revenue

Tunisia tax revenue: latest available value for 2012, historical series from 1972, ranking context and source documentation.

Outdated The newest observation is from 2012 and exceeds the maximum data age. Excluded from the Economy sitemap

Series overview

GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS

COUNTRY: TunisiaINDICATOR: GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZSUNIT: percent of GDPSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-28 18:58:23REVISIONS: 6ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

20,12Latest / 2012

-0,06Change from previous

20,24Series average

52Global rank / 161

Tunisia / Tax Revenue Unit: Percent of GDP (%)

Selected year: 201220,12%

197220122012

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Year	Value	Change
2012	20,12	-0,06
2011	20,17	0,98
2010	19,20	-0,85
2009	20,05	-0,45
2008	20,50	1,43
2007	19,07	0,56
2006	18,51	-0,37
2005	18,88	0,21
2004	18,67	-0,07
2003	18,75	-0,80
2002	19,54	-0,06
2001	19,60	0,31
2000	19,29	0,16
1999	19,13	-0,05
1998	19,18	0,74
1997	18,44	-1,40
1996	19,84	-0,65
1995	20,49	-0,28
1994	20,76	-0,24
1993	21,01	0,51
1992	20,50	0,11
1991	20,38	0,43
1990	19,95	-0,20
1989	20,15	-0,35
1988	20,50	-0,06
1987	20,56	-1,96
1986	22,52	0,52
1985	22,00	-0,98
1984	22,98	-0,09
1983	23,07	0,29
1982	22,78	1,14
1981	21,64	0,65
1980	20,99	-0,81
1979	21,80	-0,82
1978	22,62	1,35
1977	21,27	1,32
1976	19,95	-0,28
1975	20,23	2,36
1974	17,86	-1,09
1973	18,95	1,16
1972	17,79	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator 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

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
2026-09-28 16:58:23	2007	19,07	19,07	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 16:58:23	2008	20,50	20,50	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 16:58:23	2009	20,05	20,05	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 16:58:23	2010	19,20	19,20	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 16:58:23	2011	20,17	20,17	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 16:58:23	2012	20,12	20,12	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Tunisia recorded 20,12 percent of GDP in 2012, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2011, the tax revenue decreased by 0,06.

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

Across 41 observations from 1972 to 2012, the average was 20,24; the minimum was 17,79 in 1972 and the maximum was 23,07 in 1983.

Tunisia ranks 52 out of 161 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

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

It is also above the available average for the Lower middle income group.

Tax capacity and public financing base.

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