International trade taxes as a share of government revenue
Compare international trade taxes as a share of government revenue across 68 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2024 official-source dataset.
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Key Insights
- •Coverage: 68 ISO-mapped countries or territories in 2024.
- •Published range: 0.0000133453616534803 to 32.7151721129388 % of revenue.
- •Discovery motivation: Google Trends surfaced the European Commission, motivating cross-country comparison of trade-tax dependence.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 5.9% of revenue)
About This Statistic
Taxes on international trade are taxes that become payable when goods cross the national or customs frontiers of the economic territory or when transactions in services exchange between residents and non-residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of revenue which includes all transactions that add to the amount of economic value of a unit or sector.
MapTheory retains one fixed reference year and unit. Only finite values mapped to ISO 3166-1 numeric codes are included; aggregates, missing values and non-ISO geographies are excluded. No value is estimated, imputed or carried across years.
Methodology
Taxes on international trade are taxes that become payable when goods cross the national or customs frontiers of the economic territory or when transactions in services exchange between residents and non-residents. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of revenue which includes all transactions that add to the amount of economic value of a unit or sector.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namibia | 32.7% of revenue |
| 2 | Bahamas | 23.6% of revenue |
| 3 | Philippines | 20.8% of revenue |
| 4 | Somalia | 18.5% of revenue |
| 5 | Ethiopia | 18.5% of revenue |
| 6 | United Republic of Tanzania | 16.9% of revenue |
| 7 | Burkina Faso | 16.6% of revenue |
| 8 | Guinea-Bissau | 16.0% of revenue |
| 9 | Argentina | 15.0% of revenue |
| 10 | Madagascar | 14.6% of revenue |
| 11 | Solomon Islands | 13.5% of revenue |
| 12 | Fiji | 13.0% of revenue |
| 13 | Lesotho | 13.0% of revenue |
| 14 | Andorra | 10.1% of revenue |
| 15 | Belarus | 10.1% of revenue |
| 16 | Lebanon | 9.2% of revenue |
| 17 | Uganda | 8.7% of revenue |
| 18 | Kyrgyzstan | 8.5% of revenue |
| 19 | Malawi | 6.8% of revenue |
| 20 | Mongolia | 6.5% of revenue |
| 21 | Paraguay | 5.7% of revenue |
| 22 | Dominican Republic | 5.5% of revenue |
| 23 | Mozambique | 5.3% of revenue |
| 24 | Zambia | 5.3% of revenue |
| 25 | Nauru | 5.3% of revenue |
| 26 | El Salvador | 4.7% of revenue |
| 27 | Guatemala | 4.5% of revenue |
| 28 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 4.3% of revenue |
| 29 | Tajikistan | 4.1% of revenue |
| 30 | Costa Rica | 4.0% of revenue |
| 31 | Azerbaijan | 3.8% of revenue |
| 32 | Russian Federation | 3.7% of revenue |
| 33 | Papua New Guinea | 3.7% of revenue |
| 34 | South Africa | 3.6% of revenue |
| 35 | Nicaragua | 3.6% of revenue |
| 36 | Panama | 3.3% of revenue |
| 37 | Armenia | 3.1% of revenue |
| 38 | Uruguay | 3.0% of revenue |
| 39 | New Zealand | 2.9% of revenue |
| 40 | Thailand | 2.8% of revenue |
| 41 | Angola | 2.6% of revenue |
| 42 | Brazil | 2.5% of revenue |
| 43 | Mexico | 2.1% of revenue |
| 44 | Saudi Arabia | 1.9% of revenue |
| 45 | Türkiye | 1.7% of revenue |
| 46 | United States of America | 1.6% of revenue |
| 47 | Malaysia | 1.6% of revenue |
| 48 | Colombia | 1.4% of revenue |
| 49 | Ukraine | 1.3% of revenue |
| 50 | People's Republic of China | 1.2% of revenue |
| 51 | Albania | 1.2% of revenue |
| 52 | Mauritius | 1.1% of revenue |
| 53 | South Korea | 1.0% of revenue |
| 54 | Chile | 1.0% of revenue |
| 55 | Canada | 0.9% of revenue |
| 56 | United Kingdom | 0.6% of revenue |
| 57 | Georgia | 0.5% of revenue |
| 58 | Switzerland | 0.5% of revenue |
| 59 | San Marino | 0.3% of revenue |
| 60 | Israel | 0.3% of revenue |
| 61 | Norway | 0.2% of revenue |
| 62 | Denmark | 0.0% of revenue |
| 63 | Bulgaria | 0.0% of revenue |
| 64 | United Arab Emirates | 0.0% of revenue |
| 65 | Greece | 0.0% of revenue |
| 66 | France | 0.0% of revenue |
| 67 | Romania | 0.0% of revenue |
| 68 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.0% of revenue |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Development Indicators (2024).
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