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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.

Source: World Development Indicators68 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average
5.9% of revenue
Median: 3.6% of revenue
Countries Covered
68
with available data
Highest
Namibia
32.7% of revenue
Lowest
Bosnia and Herzegovina
0.0% of revenue
Top 5 Countries
1Namibia32.7% of revenue
2Bahamas23.6% of revenue
3Philippines20.8% of revenue
4Somalia18.5% of revenue
5Ethiopia18.5% of revenue
By Region
Key Findings
  • 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

Low (0.0% of revenue)High (32.7% of revenue)

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
1Namibia32.7% of revenue
2Bahamas23.6% of revenue
3Philippines20.8% of revenue
4Somalia18.5% of revenue
5Ethiopia18.5% of revenue
6United Republic of Tanzania16.9% of revenue
7Burkina Faso16.6% of revenue
8Guinea-Bissau16.0% of revenue
9Argentina15.0% of revenue
10Madagascar14.6% of revenue
11Solomon Islands13.5% of revenue
12Fiji13.0% of revenue
13Lesotho13.0% of revenue
14Andorra10.1% of revenue
15Belarus10.1% of revenue
16Lebanon9.2% of revenue
17Uganda8.7% of revenue
18Kyrgyzstan8.5% of revenue
19Malawi6.8% of revenue
20Mongolia6.5% of revenue
21Paraguay5.7% of revenue
22Dominican Republic5.5% of revenue
23Mozambique5.3% of revenue
24Zambia5.3% of revenue
25Nauru5.3% of revenue
26El Salvador4.7% of revenue
27Guatemala4.5% of revenue
28The Republic of North Macedonia4.3% of revenue
29Tajikistan4.1% of revenue
30Costa Rica4.0% of revenue
31Azerbaijan3.8% of revenue
32Russian Federation3.7% of revenue
33Papua New Guinea3.7% of revenue
34South Africa3.6% of revenue
35Nicaragua3.6% of revenue
36Panama3.3% of revenue
37Armenia3.1% of revenue
38Uruguay3.0% of revenue
39New Zealand2.9% of revenue
40Thailand2.8% of revenue
41Angola2.6% of revenue
42Brazil2.5% of revenue
43Mexico2.1% of revenue
44Saudi Arabia1.9% of revenue
45Türkiye1.7% of revenue
46United States of America1.6% of revenue
47Malaysia1.6% of revenue
48Colombia1.4% of revenue
49Ukraine1.3% of revenue
50People's Republic of China1.2% of revenue
51Albania1.2% of revenue
52Mauritius1.1% of revenue
53South Korea1.0% of revenue
54Chile1.0% of revenue
55Canada0.9% of revenue
56United Kingdom0.6% of revenue
57Georgia0.5% of revenue
58Switzerland0.5% of revenue
59San Marino0.3% of revenue
60Israel0.3% of revenue
61Norway0.2% of revenue
62Denmark0.0% of revenue
63Bulgaria0.0% of revenue
64United Arab Emirates0.0% of revenue
65Greece0.0% of revenue
66France0.0% of revenue
67Romania0.0% of revenue
68Bosnia and Herzegovina0.0% of revenue
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Data Source

This data comes from World Development Indicators (2024).

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