Revenue Statistics in Africa is a joint publication by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, the OECD Development Centre, the African Tax Administration Forum and the African Union Commission, with the technical support of the African Development Bank and the Cercle de réflexion et d’échange des dirigeants des administrations fiscales and with the financial support of the European Union. The report presents detailed, internationally comparable data on both tax and non-tax revenues for 33 African countries. Its approach is based on the well-established methodology of the OECD Revenue Statistics database, which has become an essential reference source for OECD member countries and many more. Comparisons are also made with the average for OECD economies and for the economies featured in Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean and Revenue Statistics in Asia and the Pacific. The classifications and definitions used for this data are consistent with those used in Revenue Statistics, in Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Revenue Statistics in Asia and the Pacific. It also provides a conceptual framework defining which government receipts should be regarded as taxes and classifies different types of revenues. Comparable tables show revenue data by type in US dollars, as a percentage of GDP, and, for the different types of revenues, as a share of total taxation and total non-tax revenues. Detailed country tables show information in national currency values.
Unless otherwise noted, all revenue data are on a cash basis.

Revenue Statistics in Africa publication

The figures include sub-national government tax revenues for Eswatini, Mauritania (2009-2018), Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria (only state revenues) and South Africa (from 2002). Sub-national government tax revenues are not available in other countries. Data on social security contributions are not available for Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (prior to 2012), Equatorial Guinea (prior to 2013), Guinea, Madagascar (prior to 2011), Namibia (prior to 2009), the Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Togo and Uganda and are only partially available in Cameroon and Senegal.