World Revenue Longitudinal Database, IMF

Summary

The IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD) tracks government revenue trends in 193 countries since the early 1990s. WoRLD tracks directly 9 key components of tax and non-tax revenues, which together contribute about 82 percent of government revenue globally.

Tables In IFs

Variable	Definition	UsedInPreprocessor	UsedInPreprocessorFileName	Code in Source
GovRevGenTotRev%GDP	Revenue, general government, total revenue, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	TotRev
GovRevGenTaxRev%GDP	Revenue, general government, tax revenue, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.TaxRev
GovRevGenTaxInc%GDP	Revenue, general government, taxes on income and profit, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.1.TaxInc
GovRevGenTaxIncI%GDP	Revenue, general government, taxes on income and profit of individuals, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.1.a.TaxIncI
GovRevGenTaxIncC%GDP	Revenue, general government, taxes on income and profits of corporations, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.1.b.TaxIncC
GovRevGenTaxIncCRes%GDP	Revenue, general government, taxes on income and profits of extractive industries, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.1.b.i.TaxIncCRes
GovRevGenTaxIncO%GDP	Revenue, general government, other taxes on income and profit, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.1.c.TaxIncO
GovRevGenTaxPro%GDP	Revenue, general government, taxes on property, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.2.TaxPro
GovRevGenTaxSal%GDP	Revenue, general government, taxes on sales and production, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.3.TaxSal
GovRevGenTaxSalG%GDP	Revenue, general government, general sales taxes, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.3.a.TaxSalG
GovRevGenTaxSalGI%GDP	Revenue, general government, general sales taxes collected on imports, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.3.a.i.TaxSalGI
GovRevGenTaxSalExc%GDP	Revenue, general government, excise taxes, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.3.b.TaxSalExc
GovRevGenTaxSalUnal%GDP	Revenue, general government, unallocated taxes on sales and production, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.3.c.TaxSalUnal
GovRevGenTaxTra%GDP	Revenue, general government, taxes on international trade, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.4.TaxTra
GovRevGenTaxOth%GDP	Revenue, general government, taxes not elsewhere classified, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	I.5.TaxOth
GovRevGenSocialCon%GDP	Revenue, general government, social contributions, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	II.SocialCon
GovRevGenGrants%GDP	Revenue, general government, grants revenue, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	III.Grants
GovRevGenRevOth%GDP	Revenue, general government, other revenue, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	IV.RevOth
GovRevGenNonTaxRes%GDP	Revenue, general government, non-tax revenue from extractive industries, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	IV.1.NonTaxRes
GovRevGenNonTaxOth%GDP	Revenue, general government, other non-tax revenue, percent of GDP	0	ECONOMY	IV.2.NonTaxOth

Data Pulling Instructions

Data Notes

If you are downloading the excel or CSV file for the data, some countries spelling gets messed up (ex. Côte d'Ivoire, "São Tomé and Príncipe", Türkiye) and need to be changed to match to the IMF WEO Countries naming conventions before importing them to the IFs Database.