Congo, Dem. Rep.: Taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2022, Congo, Dem. Rep.'s taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes) rose 12.53 percentage points on 2021 (from 47.28% to 59.81%).

Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2021), the average change was +0.68 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.49 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 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 17.28 percentage points in 1995 and the biggest yearly fall was 12.25 percentage points in 1992. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2013 to 2022 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.38 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 71% 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.

Closest to Congo, Dem. Rep. in the 2022 ranking

• Timor-Leste — 1st of 8: 81.75%
• Equatorial Guinea — 2nd of 8: 79.21%
• Australia — 3rd of 8: 76.64%
• India — 5th of 8: 47.15%
• Ecuador — 6th of 8: 29.21%
• Serbia — 7th of 8: 28.76%

What this measures

Taxes on income, profits, and capital gains are taxes payable on the actual or presumed incomes, profits and capital gains. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of total taxes which includes all compulsory, unrequited payments, in cash or in kind, made by institutional units to government units.

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).

All 32 values

Taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes) in nearby economies

• Angola — 70.05% (2024)
• Botswana — 40.71% (2023)
• Burkina Faso — 27.07% (2024)
• Burundi — 21.6% (2021)
• Cabo Verde — 30.72% (2020)
• Cameroon — 27.23% (2021)
• Congo, Rep. — 27.19% (2021)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 28.83% (2023)
• Equatorial Guinea — 79.21% (2022)

More public sector data for Congo, Dem. Rep.

• Military expenditure (current USD) — 1.23 billion (2025)
• Military expenditure (current LCU) — 3.32 trillion (2025)
• Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values) — 44 million (2025)
• Military expenditure (% of GDP) — 1.38% (2025)
• Net investment in nonfinancial assets (current LCU) — 8.54 trillion (2022)
• Net investment in nonfinancial assets (% of GDP) — 6.04% (2022)
• Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (current LCU) — -2.92 trillion (2022)
• Net lending (+) / net borrowing (-) (% of GDP) — -2.07% (2022)
• Grants and other revenue (current LCU) — 8.14 trillion (2022)

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Questions people ask

What is Congo, Dem. Rep.'s taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes)?

59.81% in 2022, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1990?

It is up 30.94 percentage points from 28.87% in 1990. The highest value was 59.81% in 2022 and the lowest 16.31% in 2005.

Is the latest change in taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes) unusual for Congo, Dem. Rep.?

In 2022, Congo, Dem. Rep.'s taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes) rose 12.53 percentage points on 2021 (from 47.28% to 59.81%). Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2021), the average change was +0.68 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.49 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator GC.TAX.YPKG.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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