African Tax Observatory · Country brief · MaliData pulled 14 October 2026 · taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/countries/MLI

Centre 17°19′N 3°35′W

Gazetteer · Western Africa · Low income

Mali

Collected 15.2% of GDP in tax in 2020, 14 of 38 reporting members.

15.2%

Tax, % of GDP, 2020

+0.5

Points since 2010

0.69

Tax buoyancy

over 11 years

$341

Tax per person

PPP dollars

Plate I·Over time

Fifteen years, against the continent

Over time

Mali against the continent

Measure

MaliWestern Africa medianATAF median and middle half

The shaded band is the middle half of ATAF members each year (25th to 75th percentile); the dashed line is the median of Western Africa. The members reporting change from year to year, so the band can move because the set of countries changed; the CSV gives the count for each year.

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Year	Mali	Western Africa median	ATAF median	ATAF 25th percentile	ATAF 75th percentile	Members reporting
2010	14.66	14.56	14.34	10.67	16.43	26
2011	13.83	15.71	14.84	10.99	16.62	33
2012	13.61	16.21	15.07	11.45	16.75	33
2013	13.93	13.93	13.83	11.23	16.89	32
2014	14.29	14.23	14.26	11.87	17.13	32
2015	15.25	14.34	15.08	12.33	18.55	33
2016	14.28	14.28	14.38	12.40	17.43	33
2017	17.04	14.75	14.75	11.50	16.95	35
2018	9.78	13.32	14.18	10.86	16.10	36
2019	9.17	12.50	13.57	11.51	17.23	38
2020	15.15	12.22	13.27	10.85	16.07	38
2021		12.46	12.72	10.44	16.06	40
2022		13.45	14.18	11.34	18.16	39
2023		13.30	14.43	11.30	18.82	37
2024		13.51	14.30	12.17	18.05	38
2025		13.38	13.74	12.18	20.53	34

Plate II·Peers, 2020

Each tax beside the medians

Against its peers, 2020

Each tax as a share of GDP, beside the medians

The line joins Mali (orange) to the ATAF median (grey); the blue tick is the Western Africa median. All three are for 2020.

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Measure	Mali	Western Africa median	ATAF median
Tax-to-GDP	15.15	12.22	13.27
Domestic taxes	9.00	7.51	8.30
Customs taxes	6.15	5.59	4.47
Non-tax revenue	0.08	2.82	2.82
VAT	4.73	4.19	4.37
PIT	1.49	1.49	2.09
CIT	3.42	1.60	2.04

Plate III·Tax heads

How Mali's tax is made up

Tax heads

What each tax brings in, as a share of GDP

Domestic VATPersonal income taxCorporate income taxWithholding taxPresumptive taxOther domestic taxesVAT on importsImport dutyOther customs taxesNot attributed to a headExcise on imports

Each bar stacks the tax heads ATAF publishes for that year. Where the heads do not add up to total tax revenue, the gap is drawn in light grey and labelled, never spread across the heads. A head missing from a year was not reported for that year.

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Year	Tax head	Revenue (PPP $)	% of GDP
2010	Domestic VAT	503495838	2.05
2010	Personal income tax	332159905	1.35
2010	Corporate income tax	547765638	2.23
2010	Withholding tax	41112010	0.17
2010	Presumptive tax	30767225	0.13
2010	Other domestic taxes	211803418	0.86
2010	VAT on imports	827970933	3.37
2010	Import duty	481118245	1.96
2010	Other customs taxes	520279032	2.12
2010	Not attributed to a head	99550303	0.41
2011	Domestic VAT	578462238	2.22
2011	Personal income tax	369104413	1.42
2011	Corporate income tax	464468057	1.78
2011	Withholding tax	44857043	0.17
2011	Presumptive tax	36320213	0.14
2011	Other domestic taxes	203370197	0.78
2011	VAT on imports	857975191	3.29
2011	Import duty	518764935	1.99
2011	Other customs taxes	556712058	2.14
2012	Domestic VAT	510252282	1.96
2012	Personal income tax	390540163	1.50
2012	Corporate income tax	514946726	1.98
2012	Withholding tax	73874091	0.28
2012	Presumptive tax	43827260	0.17
2012	Other domestic taxes	207316598	0.80
2012	VAT on imports	760941447	2.93
2012	Import duty	445916125	1.72
2012	Other customs taxes	623838877	2.40
2013	Domestic VAT	556740083	2.02
2013	Personal income tax	386429739	1.40
2013	Corporate income tax	590171263	2.14
2013	Withholding tax	55372675	0.20
2013	Presumptive tax	38535400	0.14
2013	Other domestic taxes	218614872	0.79
2013	VAT on imports	928356109	3.37
2013	Import duty	509775113	1.85
2013	Other customs taxes	669820788	2.43
2014	Domestic VAT	623734729	2.07
2014	Personal income tax	447987365	1.49
2014	Corporate income tax	725506188	2.41
2014	Withholding tax	182560961	0.61
2014	Presumptive tax	45183317	0.15
2014	Other domestic taxes	255552727	0.85
2014	VAT on imports	908165082	3.02
2014	Import duty	528162472	1.75
2014	Other customs taxes	685468005	2.28
2015	Domestic VAT	759936240	2.35
2015	Personal income tax	523957908	1.62
2015	Corporate income tax	741190472	2.29
2015	Withholding tax	60780111	0.19
2015	Presumptive tax	52920238	0.16
2015	Other domestic taxes	349976908	1.08
2015	VAT on imports	1121832426	3.47
2015	Import duty	648759535	2.01
2015	Other customs taxes	866080254	2.68
2016	Domestic VAT	744712702	2.07
2016	Personal income tax	557633039	1.55
2016	Corporate income tax	861084847	2.39
2016	Withholding tax	96058882	0.27
2016	Presumptive tax	62417174	0.17
2016	Other domestic taxes	434062984	1.20
2016	VAT on imports	744712702	2.07
2016	Import duty	744712702	2.07
2016	Other customs taxes	1031431824	2.86
2017	Domestic VAT	947281004	2.49
2017	Personal income tax	643593080	1.69
2017	Corporate income tax	1048460757	2.76
2017	Withholding tax	100378158	0.26
2017	Presumptive tax	63743987	0.17
2017	Other domestic taxes	426501558	1.12
2017	VAT on imports	1493179654	3.93
2017	Import duty	839593055	2.21
2017	Other customs taxes	1096925297	2.88
2018	Domestic VAT	483036766	1.08
2018	Personal income tax	19326091	0.04
2018	Corporate income tax	930024576	2.08
2018	Presumptive tax	6909753	0.02
2018	Other domestic taxes	1248379921	2.80
2018	VAT on imports	1265161884	2.84
2018	Import duty	693347032	1.55
2018	Excise on imports	404756	0.00
2018	Other customs taxes	13330308	0.03
2019	Domestic VAT	924289089	1.92
2019	Personal income tax	18135440	0.04
2019	Corporate income tax	1059133012	2.20
2019	Presumptive tax	6982321	0.01
2019	Other domestic taxes	1246706790	2.59
2019	VAT on imports	1263466261	2.63
2020	Domestic VAT	755035054	1.54
2020	Personal income tax	730755261	1.49
2020	Corporate income tax	1674503490	3.42
2020	Withholding tax	156488777	0.32
2020	Presumptive tax	20888953	0.04
2020	Other domestic taxes	629787587	1.29
2020	VAT on imports	1559083388	3.19
2020	Import duty	832932076	1.70
2020	Excise on imports	221197149	0.45
2020	Other customs taxes	394464354	0.81
2020	Not attributed to a head	433006023	0.89

The mix in 2020

Every shilling, franc or rand of tax, by head

Rectangle areas are proportional to revenue in 2020 (US dollars at purchasing-power parity). Total tax revenue: $7.4bn.

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Tax head	Revenue (PPP $)	Share of tax revenue
Domestic VAT	755035054	0.10
Personal income tax	730755261	0.10
Corporate income tax	1674503490	0.23
Withholding tax	156488777	0.02
Presumptive tax	20888953	0.00
Other domestic taxes	629787587	0.09
VAT on imports	1559083388	0.21
Import duty	832932076	0.11
Excise on imports	221197149	0.03
Other customs taxes	394464354	0.05
Not attributed to a head	433006023	0.06

Every published number

Mali in the ATAF Databank

All 23 freely available indicators, exactly as ATAF publishes them. A blank cell means ATAF has no figure for that year; nothing is filled in.

Mali: ATAF Databank indicators by year
Indicator	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Nominal GDP (PPP)	$24.5bn	$26.1bn	$26.0bn	$27.5bn	$30.1bn	$32.3bn	$36.0bn	$38.0bn	$44.6bn	$48.1bn	$48.9bn	$54.2bn
Real GDP	5,288,939.0m	6,123,929.0m	6,352,360.0m	6,543,944.0m	7,113,832.9m	7,747,688.4m	8,321,833.7m	8,868,390.7m	9,345,700.0m	9,959,600.0m	9,359,303.3m	9,646,621.7m
Final Consumption (PPP)	$19.5bn	$198.2bn	$19.9bn	$21.7bn	$25.6bn	$28.5bn	$31.9bn	$33.3bn	$40.4m	$42.5m
Total Tax Revenues (PPP)	$3.6bn	$3.6bn	$3.5bn	$3.8bn	$4.3bn	$4.9bn	$5.1bn	$6.5bn	$4.4bn	$4.4bn	$7.4bn
Total Number Of Registered Taxpayers
Non-Tax-Revenues (PPP)						$237.0m	$214.3m	$589.3m			$39.9m
Domestic Tax Revenues (PPP)	$1.8bn	$1.7bn	$1.7bn	$1.7bn	$2.2bn	$2.3bn	$2.6bn	$3.0bn	$2.4bn	$3.1bn	$4.4bn
Customs Tax Revenues (PPP)	$1.8bn	$1.9bn	$1.8bn	$2.1bn	$2.1bn	$2.6bn	$2.5bn	$3.4bn	$2.0bn	$1.3bn	$3.0bn
Revenue From Agriculture, Forest & Fishing (PPP)
Revenue From Mining & Quarrying (PPP)
Revenue From Secondary Sector (PPP)
Revenue From Tertiary Sector (PPP)
Domestic VAT Revenues (PPP)	$503.5m	$578.5m	$510.3m	$556.7m	$623.7m	$759.9m	$744.7m	$947.3m	$483.0m	$924.3m	$755.0m
VAT Refunded (PPP)	$29.0m	$165.2m	$210.8m	$268.1m	$254.7m	$368.8m	$313.2m	$398.6m	$306.2m	$116.2m
PIT Revenues (PPP)	$332.2m	$369.1m	$390.5m	$386.4m	$448.0m	$524.0m	$557.6m	$643.6m	$19.3m	$18.1m	$730.8m
CIT Revenues (PPP)	$547.8m	$464.5m	$514.9m	$590.2m	$725.5m	$741.2m	$861.1m	$1.0bn	$930.0m	$1.1bn	$1.7bn
Withholding Tax Revenues (PPP)	$41.1m	$44.9m	$73.9m	$55.4m	$182.6m	$60.8m	$96.1m	$100.4m			$156.5m
Presumptive Tax Revenues (PPP)	$30.8m	$36.3m	$43.8m	$38.5m	$45.2m	$52.9m	$62.4m	$63.7m	$6.9m	$7.0m	$20.9m
Other Domestic Tax Revenues (PPP)	$211.8m	$203.4m	$207.3m	$218.6m	$255.6m	$350.0m	$434.1m	$426.5m	$1.2bn	$1.2bn	$629.8m
VAT On Import Revenues (PPP)	$828.0m	$858.0m	$760.9m	$928.4m	$908.2m	$1.1bn	$744.7m	$1.5bn	$1.3bn	$1.3bn	$1.6bn
Import Duty Revenues (PPP)	$481.1m	$518.8m	$445.9m	$509.8m	$528.2m	$648.8m	$744.7m	$839.6m	$693.3m		$832.9m
Excises on Imports Revenues (PPP)									$404.8k		$221.2m
Other Customs Tax Revenues (PPP)	$520.3m	$556.7m	$623.8m	$669.8m	$685.5m	$866.1m	$1.0bn	$1.1bn	$13.3m		$394.5m

Values are rounded for display; the CSV has them exactly as published. Revenue and GDP are US dollars at purchasing-power parity.

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Source: ATAF Databank, the African Tax Administration Forum; World Bank World Development Indicators. Tax and GDP are in US dollars at purchasing-power parity, so their ratio equals the ratio in local currency. Cite as: Kaijamahe, W. H. (2026). Mali. In African Tax Observatory (Edition 1, October 2026) [Data set and atlas]. TaxIntellilytics Stories. https://www.taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/countries/MLI Every figure and its method: taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/methods

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Mali, in Edition 1

Kaijamahe, W. H. (2026). Mali. In African Tax Observatory (Edition 1, October 2026) [Data set and atlas]. TaxIntellilytics Stories. https://www.taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/countries/MLI

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