Côte d'Ivoire's tax revenue (% of GDP) was 13.04% in 2023, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 2.4 percentage points from 10.64% in 2013.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 13.04% | 2023 |
| Five years earlier | 11.67% | 2018 |
| Ten years earlier | 10.64% | 2013 |
| Highest | 18.82% | 1995 |
| Lowest | 7.57% | 2011 |
| Average since 2014 | 11.69% | 2014–2023 |
| First recorded | 18.01% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2023, Côte d'Ivoire's tax revenue (% of GDP) rose 1.22 percentage points on 2022 (from 11.82% to 13.04%).
Across the 21 yearly changes before that (2002 to 2022), the average change was +0.11 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.98 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.05 percentage points in 2012 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.64 percentage points in 2011. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2014 to 2023 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.22 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 75% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 13.2% for 2026. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2021 to 2023 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.34%, against 0.63% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2023, Côte d'Ivoire had the 14th highest value of the 18 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Côte d'Ivoire | 13.04% | 2023 |
| World | 13.86% | 2024 |
| Lower middle income | 12.09% | 2018 |
Closest to Côte d'Ivoire in the 2023 ranking
What this measures
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.
Limitations: For most countries central government finance data have been consolidated into one account, but for others only budgetary central government accounts are available. Countries reporting budgetary data are noted in the country metadata. Because budgetary accounts may not include all central government units (such as social security funds), they usually provide an incomplete picture. In federal states the central government accounts provide an incomplete view of total public finance. Data on government revenue and expense are collected by the IMF through questionnaires to member countries and by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 25 values
| Year | Tax revenue (% of GDP) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 13.04 |
| 2022 | 11.82 |
| 2021 | 12.39 |
| 2020 | 11.79 |
| 2019 | 11.67 |
| 2018 | 11.67 |
| 2017 | 11.76 |
| 2016 | 11.46 |
| 2015 | 11.18 |
| 2014 | 10.12 |
| 2013 |
Tax revenue (% of GDP) in nearby economies
- Angola — 7.59% (2024)
- Botswana — 22.42% (2023)
- Burkina Faso — 18.68% (2024)
- Burundi — 12.67% (2021)
- Cabo Verde — 18.39% (2020)
- Cameroon — 11.34% (2021)
- Central African Republic — 8.21% (2021)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 10.66% (2022)
- Congo, Rep. — 6.51% (2021)
- Equatorial Guinea — 6.6% (2022)
- Eswatini — 24.35% (2021)
- Ethiopia
More public sector data for Côte d'Ivoire
- Military expenditure (current USD) — 759.44 million (2025)
- Military expenditure (current LCU) — 441.6 billion (2025)
- Military expenditure (% of GDP) — 0.77% (2025)
- Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values) — 15 million (2025)
- Taxes on exports (current LCU) — 995.2 billion (2023)
- Taxes on exports (% of tax revenue) — 15.58% (2023)
- Taxes on goods and services (current LCU) — 2.44 trillion (2023)
- Taxes on goods and services (% of industry and services value added) — 6.54% (2023)
- Customs and other import duties (current LCU) — 756.49 billion (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Côte d'Ivoire's tax revenue (% of GDP)?
- 13.04% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is down 4.97 percentage points from 18.01% in 1990. The highest value was 18.82% in 1995 and the lowest 7.57% in 2011.
- How does Côte d'Ivoire rank?
- 14th highest of 18 economies with data for 2023.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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