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