The IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database: 2026 Update

Fayçal Sawadogo, Kiran Rimal, Maria Sarrabayrouse, Uzochukwu Alutu, Grace Ashley and Jia Chen

No 2026/005, IMF Technical Notes and Manuals from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This note presents the key updates and revenue development highlights of the 2026 version of the IMF's World Revenue Longitudinal Database (WoRLD), a comprehensive dataset that tracks government revenue trends since the early 1980s, using the classification of the Government Finance Statistics Manual. With data for 195 countries, including 191 IMF member countries, WoRLD provides policymakers, researchers, and the public with invaluable insights into the evolution of the level and composition of revenues and tax revenues. Key updates for the 2026 publication include extending country coverage to Aruba and Liechtenstein and time coverage to 2024.

Keywords: government finance statistics; Middle East and Central Asia; Middle East; Asia and Pacific; Central Asia; Western Hemisphere; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Europe; nontax revenues; revenue development; tax revenues; World Revenue Longitudinal Database; longitudinal database; IMF's World revenue; IMF Library; IMF income group; IMF region; Public expenditure review; Social security contributions; Tax allowances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2026-03-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=574036 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:imf:imftnm:2026/005

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/pubs/ord_info.htm

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IMF Technical Notes and Manuals from International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC USA. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Akshay Modi ().