Revenue per capita: continental summary measures
Dataset highlights
Government revenue by type on an annual basis 1900-2015
Covers virtually all continental African polities, most of them with data for all of the 115 years
Data comparable across time and countries:
Bottom up aggregation based on more than 130,000 individual items (~25,000 of them are unique)
Classification following the IMF guidelines, except for separation of resource revenues
Use of urban wages as deflators -> revenues can be expressed as wage days per capita.
Read & cite full paper and paper appendix published in International Organization when using data
Panel dataset that includes nominal and real values for different types of ordinary revenues
all based on our primary research (we created these data as discussed in the paper + appendix)
OR
Panel dataset and replication files for our paper publishend in International Organization
Contains all covariates used in the paper (we mostly collected these from other papers)
Extensive documentation of sources and summary stats
Sources
Visualisation
Detailed references
Shares of tax types
Real revenue collection in labour days
Comparisons with GDP deflators
