The OECD has released its report, Revenue Statistics in Africa 2025, which compiles comparable tax revenue and non-tax revenue statistics between 1990 and 2023 for 38 countries in Africa.

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Executive summary

The Africa average tax-to-GDP ratio rose for the third consecutive year in 2023 to reach 16.1%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points (p.p.) from the level of the previous year. This …