Paying taxes (DB17-20 methodology) - Score in Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea: Paying taxes (DB17-20 methodology) - Score was 41.54 in 2019. ▼ Falling

Latest (2019)
41.54
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
180th
of 191 countries
All-time high
55.68
in 2015
All-time low
41.54
in 2016
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Paying taxes (DB17-20 methodology) - Score in Equatorial Guinea, 2015–2019

02040602015201720192015: 55.72016: 41.52017: 41.52018: 41.52019: 41.5

Source: World Bank.

Analysis

In 2019, paying taxes (db17-20 methodology) - score in Equatorial Guinea stood at 41.54. That is the lowest value across all 5 years on record.

That represents a change of down 25.4% over five years.

That places Equatorial Guinea 180th out of 191 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the bottom quarter.

Paying taxes (DB17-20 methodology) - Score in Equatorial Guinea, year by year

Annual values for Paying taxes (DB17-20 methodology) - Score in Equatorial Guinea, 2015 to 2019.
Year Value Change
2015 55.68
2016 41.54 -25.4%
2017 41.54 +0.0%
2018 41.54 +0.0%
2019 41.54 +0.0%

Equatorial Guinea compared with similar countries

  • Equatorial Guinea's 41.54 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 71.14, 58% of the median. (56 countries reporting)
  • Equatorial Guinea's 41.54 is below the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 57.37, 72% of the median. (48 countries reporting)

Countries ranked near Equatorial Guinea

  1. 177 Panama 46.68 compare
  2. 178 Mauritania 42.63 compare
  3. 179 Afghanistan 42.16 compare
  4. 181 Democratic Republic of Congo 40.93 compare
  5. 182 Cameroon 36.34 compare
  6. 183 Gabon 35.92 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is paying taxes (db17-20 methodology) - score in Equatorial Guinea?
Paying taxes (db17-20 methodology) - score in Equatorial Guinea was 41.54 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
What is the highest paying taxes (db17-20 methodology) - score recorded in Equatorial Guinea?
The highest recorded value was 55.68 in 2015.
What is the lowest paying taxes (db17-20 methodology) - score recorded in Equatorial Guinea?
The lowest recorded value was 41.54 in 2016.
How does Equatorial Guinea rank for paying taxes (db17-20 methodology) - score?
Equatorial Guinea ranks 180th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Equatorial Guinea data come from?
The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Paying taxes (DB17-20 methodology) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Paying taxes (DB17-20 methodology) - Score
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
191 places, 955 data points, 2015–2019
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The score for paying taxes is the simple average of the scores for each of the component indicators, the payments, time and total tax and contribution rate for a company to comply with tax laws in an economy, as well as the postfiling procedures to request and process a VAT refund claim and to comply with and complete a corporate income tax correction. The score is computed based on the methodology in the DB17-20 studies.