Revenue Statistics in Africa 2017

The publicationRevenue Statistics in Africais jointly undertaken by the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration and the OECD Development Centre, the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) with funding by the European Union. It compiles comparable tax revenue and non-tax revenue statistics for16 countries in Africa: Cabo Verde, Cameroon, theDemocratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia and Uganda. The model is the OECDRevenue Statisticsdatabase which is a fundamental reference, backed by a well-established methodology, for OECD member countries. Extending the OECD methodology to African countries enables comparisons of tax-to-GDP ratiosand tax structures on a consistent basis, both among African economies and with OECD, Latin American, Caribbean and Asian economies.