African Tax Observatory · Country brief · South SudanData pulled 14 October 2026 · taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/countries/SSD

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South Sudan

Collected 4.5% of GDP in tax in 2022, 39 of 39 reporting members.

4.5%

Tax, % of GDP, 2022

+0.1

Points since 2021

n/a

Tax buoyancy

needs four years

$25

Tax per person

PPP dollars

Plate I·Over time

Fifteen years, against the continent

Over time

South Sudan against the continent

Measure

South SudanEastern 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 Eastern 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	South Sudan	Eastern Africa median	ATAF median	ATAF 25th percentile	ATAF 75th percentile	Members reporting
2010		11.55	14.34	10.67	16.43	26
2011		12.53	14.84	10.99	16.62	33
2012		13.08	15.07	11.45	16.75	33
2013		13.69	13.83	11.23	16.89	32
2014		14.70	14.26	11.87	17.13	32
2015		15.15	15.08	12.33	18.55	33
2016		15.61	14.38	12.40	17.43	33
2017		15.25	14.75	11.50	16.95	35
2018		15.62	14.18	10.86	16.10	36
2019		15.12	13.57	11.51	17.23	38
2020		14.28	13.27	10.85	16.07	38
2021	4.38	11.94	12.72	10.44	16.06	40
2022	4.45	13.69	14.18	11.34	18.16	39
2023		13.41	14.43	11.30	18.82	37
2024		14.28	14.30	12.17	18.05	38
2025		13.68	13.74	12.18	20.53	34

Plate II·Peers, 2022

Each tax beside the medians

Against its peers, 2022

Each tax as a share of GDP, beside the medians

The line joins South Sudan (orange) to the ATAF median (grey); the blue tick is the Eastern Africa median. All three are for 2022.

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Measure	South Sudan	Eastern Africa median	ATAF median
Tax-to-GDP	4.45	13.69	14.18
Domestic taxes	3.54	8.76	8.45
Customs taxes	0.91	5.27	4.88
PIT	2.82	2.75	1.94
CIT	0.09	1.95	2.49

Plate III·Tax heads

How South Sudan's tax is made up

Tax heads

What each tax brings in, as a share of GDP

Personal income taxCorporate income taxOther domestic taxesImport dutyExcise on importsOther customs taxesNot attributed to a head

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
2021	Personal income tax	118173967	1.91
2021	Corporate income tax	6515450	0.11
2021	Other domestic taxes	65968927	1.06
2021	Import duty	22261119	0.36
2021	Excise on imports	30894090	0.50
2021	Other customs taxes	1140204	0.02
2021	Not attributed to a head	26523309	0.43
2022	Personal income tax	175732826	2.82
2022	Corporate income tax	5540757	0.09
2022	Other domestic taxes	34164115	0.55
2022	Import duty	479063	0.01
2022	Excise on imports	151501	0.00
2022	Other customs taxes	56448325	0.90
2022	Not attributed to a head	5551008	0.09

The mix in 2022

Every shilling, franc or rand of tax, by head

Rectangle areas are proportional to revenue in 2022 (US dollars at purchasing-power parity). Total tax revenue: $278.1m.

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Tax head	Revenue (PPP $)	Share of tax revenue
Personal income tax	175732826	0.63
Corporate income tax	5540757	0.02
Other domestic taxes	34164115	0.12
Import duty	479063	0.00
Excise on imports	151501	0.00
Other customs taxes	56448325	0.20
Not attributed to a head	5551008	0.02

Every published number

South Sudan 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.

South Sudan: ATAF Databank indicators by year
Indicator	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Nominal GDP (PPP)	$1.9k	$5.9bn	$5.7bn	$6.2bn	$6.2bn
Real GDP	20k	12k	6.5	5.3	0.5		5,420.0m
Final Consumption (PPP)	$317	$242
Total Tax Revenues (PPP)				$271.5m	$278.1m
Total Number Of Registered Taxpayers	51k				51k	61k	75k	77k
Non-Tax-Revenues (PPP)
Domestic Tax Revenues (PPP)				$217.2m	$221.0m
Customs Tax Revenues (PPP)				$54.3m	$57.1m
Revenue From Agriculture, Forest & Fishing (PPP)
Revenue From Mining & Quarrying (PPP)
Revenue From Secondary Sector (PPP)
Revenue From Tertiary Sector (PPP)			$15.7m	$35.5m	$26.8m
Domestic VAT Revenues (PPP)
VAT Refunded (PPP)
PIT Revenues (PPP)				$118.2m	$175.7m
CIT Revenues (PPP)				$6.5m	$5.5m
Withholding Tax Revenues (PPP)
Presumptive Tax Revenues (PPP)
Other Domestic Tax Revenues (PPP)				$66.0m	$34.2m
VAT On Import Revenues (PPP)
Import Duty Revenues (PPP)				$22.3m	$479.1k
Excises on Imports Revenues (PPP)				$30.9m	$151.5k
Other Customs Tax Revenues (PPP)				$1.1m	$56.4m

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

Data-quality checks

What the automatic checks found

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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). South Sudan. In African Tax Observatory (Edition 1, October 2026) [Data set and atlas]. TaxIntellilytics Stories. https://www.taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/countries/SSD Every figure and its method: taxintellilyticsstories.com/africa/methods

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South Sudan, in Edition 1

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

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