World Bank fiscal-capacity panel (tax revenue and government revenue)

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Value-added panel of the World Bank's World Development Indicators (keyless API v2, CC BY 4.0): central-government tax revenue and total revenue excluding grants as % of GDP for ~194 economies, 1972-2024, with derived fiscal-capacity signals: non-tax revenue, the tax-reliance share of revenue, 10-year pillar changes and within-year pillar ranks. The revenue-side companion to imf_fiscal_balance_signals (net lending/borrowing) and wb_ids_debt_intel (debt stocks); joins on economy_code with the catalog's other World Bank panels.

Source: World Bank fiscal-capacity intelligence
Rows: 4,715
Columns: 14
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 8, 2026
Theme: economics

Column	Type	Description
economy_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 economy code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
economy_name	string	Economy name as published by the World Bank API.
region	string	World Bank region (API field region.value).
income_group	string	World Bank income group (API field incomeLevel.value).
year	integer	Reference year (1972-2024; both series current to 2024).
tax_revenue_pct_gdp	float	Central-government tax revenue as a share of GDP: compulsory transfers for public purposes, excluding most social-security contributions (WDI indicator GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS, IMF Government Finance Statistics). (unit: % of GDP)
revenue_excl_grants_pct_gdp	float	Central-government revenue excluding grants as a share of GDP (WDI indicator GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS, IMF Government Finance Statistics). (unit: % of GDP)
nontax_revenue_pct_gdp	float	Non-tax revenue as a share of GDP (revenue excluding grants minus tax revenue; connector-derived). Null when either input is null. (unit: % of GDP)
tax_reliance_share	float	Tax revenue as a share of revenue excluding grants (connector-derived): the tax-reliance gauge of the fiscal base. Null when revenue is null or zero. (unit: share)
tax_change_10y_pp	float	Trailing 10-year change of tax revenue as % of GDP, in percentage points (the fiscal-capacity drift lens); null when the base year is absent. (unit: pp)
revenue_change_10y_pp	float	Trailing 10-year change of revenue excluding grants as % of GDP, in percentage points; null when the base year is absent. (unit: pp)
tax_rank	integer	Rank of tax_revenue_pct_gdp within the year (1 = highest tax take); null where the share is null. (unit: rank)
revenue_rank	integer	Rank of revenue_excl_grants_pct_gdp within the year (1 = highest revenue); null where the share is null. (unit: rank)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 12-hex row identity hash (economy_code\|year).

First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.

economy_code	economy_name	region	income_group	year	tax_revenue_pct_gdp	revenue_excl_grants_pct_gdp	nontax_revenue_pct_gdp	tax_reliance_share	tax_change_10y_pp	revenue_change_10y_pp	tax_rank	revenue_rank	row_hash
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,006	6.968	8.968	2	0.777	—	—	105	106	cee0bb8f38b0
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,007	5.283	7.009	1.726	0.754	—	—	109	110	3368c40efd5d
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,008	6.088	8.053	1.965	0.756	—	—	116	119	f5750ddcaf41
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,009	8.482	10.575	2.093	0.802	—	—	110	116	0cdef2c4b503
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,010	9.17	11.092	1.922	0.827	—	—	112	120	9a4d2e52eee1
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,011	8.917	11.51	2.593	0.775	—	—	119	118	8cf1136365cc
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,012	7.708	10.201	2.493	0.756	—	—	128	129	9ad777beb61c
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,013	7.123	9.406	2.283	0.757	—	—	128	132	67bc5fcad143
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,014	6.882	8.614	1.732	0.799	—	—	137	141	26b1795fb167
AFG	Afghanistan	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income	2,015	7.585	10.131	2.546	0.749	—	—	139	141	720aeaad2a61

Profiled Oct 8, 2026 from snapshot 20261008T182318Z-5b2df4bf3d0e

Measured

Completeness: 94.5%
Rows: 4,715
Columns: 14
Columns with gaps: 8

Rows per yearyear · 1972–2024 · 53 years

19722024

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
economy_codevarchar	0%	184	—	AUT53 CHE53 CHL53
economy_namevarchar	0%	141	—	Austria53 Chile53 Costa Rica53
regionvarchar	0%	6	—	Europe & Central Asia1,750 Sub-Saharan Africa 780 Latin America & Caribbean 769
income_groupvarchar	0%	4	—	High income2,231 Upper middle income1,328 Lower middle income875
yearbigint	0%	52	1,972 → 2,024median 2,006	35 outside 1st–99th percentile
tax_revenue_pct_gdpdouble	0.23%	5,673	0.0407 → 638.66median 16.49	96 outside 1st–99th percentile
revenue_excl_grants_pct_gdpdouble	0.68%	4,183	0 → 799.04median 24.67	94 outside 1st–99th percentile
nontax_revenue_pct_gdpdouble	0.91%	4,600	0.0016 → 209.52median 6.72	94 outside 1st–99th percentile
tax_reliance_sharedouble	0.91%	5,050	0.0085 → 0.9991median 0.7025	94 outside 1st–99th percentile
tax_change_10y_ppdouble	36.1%	2,940	-632.19 → 21.38median 0.475	62 outside 1st–99th percentile
revenue_change_10y_ppdouble	36.9%	2,920	-784.7 → 32.5median 0.918	60 outside 1st–99th percentile
tax_rankbigint	0.23%	151	1 → 146median 45	46 outside 1st–99th percentile
revenue_rankbigint	0.68%	151	1 → 146median 45	46 outside 1st–99th percentile
row_hashvarchar	0%	4,504	—	000df08048851 00190f572f921 001d63a2841d1

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/wb_fiscal_capacity_intel/fiscal_capacity_panel" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/wb_fiscal_capacity_intel/fiscal_capacity_panel").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/wb_fiscal_capacity_intel/fiscal_capacity_panel

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

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World Bank fiscal-capacity intelligence. (2026). World Bank fiscal-capacity panel (tax revenue and government revenue) [Data set, snapshot 20261008T182318Z-5b2df4bf3d0e, sha256 5b2df4bf3d0e]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-09, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/wb_fiscal_capacity_intel/fiscal_capacity_panel?snapshot=20261008T182318Z-5b2df4bf3d0e

BibTeX

@misc{dz_wb_fiscal_capacity_intel_fiscal_capacity_5b2df4bf,
  title        = {{World Bank fiscal-capacity panel (tax revenue and government revenue)}},
  author       = {{World Bank fiscal-capacity intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/wb_fiscal_capacity_intel/fiscal_capacity_panel?snapshot=20261008T182318Z-5b2df4bf3d0e}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261008T182318Z-5b2df4bf3d0e, sha256 5b2df4bf3d0ebb447f085c2ab07e7f827a94991b1921373613862024fcce7208; accessed 2026-10-09}
}

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