Economy · Tax revenue · Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea’s tax revenue was 6.6% of GDP in 2022.
6.6% of GDP
2022
Up 1.2 pp from 2021.
Stale — last updated 8 Oct 2026
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6.6% of GDP
What it is. Tax revenue counts the compulsory payments the central government collects, such as taxes on income and profits, on goods and services and on trade, and divides the total by the size of the economy. Expressing it as a share of GDP lets readers compare the state's take across years as the economy grows or shrinks. Local government taxes and non-tax income such as grants and fees fall outside it.
Higher is better. A higher share means the state funds more of its spending from domestic taxation, which gives it steadier income to plan around. The latest figure, for 2022, is 6.6% of GDP, up from 5.4% of GDP a year earlier, a rise of 1.2 percentage points. Since 2013 the share has ranged from a low of 5.4% of GDP in 2021 to a high of 11.5% of GDP in 2015. The 2022 reading therefore sits in the lower part of that range, just above its floor and well below the 2015 peak.
Why it matters. At 6.6% of GDP, the government collects a modest share of national income in taxes, which limits what it can spend on services such as health, schools and roads from tax receipts alone. Households and firms face a lighter tax take than in 2015, when the share was 11.5% of GDP. The 2022 rebound is the first step back from the 2021 low, and the next annual reading will show whether it continues.
| Period | Tax revenue · Equatorial Guinea |
|---|---|
| 2013 | 8.5% of GDP |
| 2014 | 8.3% of GDP |
| 2015 | 11.5% of GDP |
| 2016 | 6.4% of GDP |
| 2017 | 6% of GDP |
| 2018 | 6.2% of GDP |
| 2019 | 9.3% of GDP |
| 2020 | 8% of GDP |
| 2021 | 5.4% of GDP |
| 2022 | 6.6% of GDP |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Tax revenue, Equatorial Guinea, 2022; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/economy/tax-revenue/equatorial-guinea
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Central government tax revenue as a share of GDP. Unit: % of GDP.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.