Botswana vs Congo: Subsidies

Botswana
9.12 billion GFS, current LCU
in 2011
Congo
7.60 billion GFS, current LCU
in 2011
Botswana rank
18th
Congo rank
19th

Subsidies over time

  • Botswana
  • Congo
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How they compare

Botswana currently reports 9.12 billion GFS, current LCU against 7.60 billion GFS, current LCU in Congo, a difference of 1.52 billion GFS, current LCU.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.2 times Congo's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 22 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 18th and Congo ranks 19th of 47 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Subsidies (GFS, current LCU)
Unit
GFS, current LCU
Source
World Bank country economists
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
47 places, 1,211 data points, 1966–2011
Last refreshed

Subsidies are current unrequited payments that government units make to enterprises, resident producers and importers. Subsidies may be designed to influence enterprises level or type of production, or the prices at which the products are sold. (Capital grants are in the national accounts classified as capital transfers.) Subsidies consists of ‘subsidies on products’, subsidies payable per unit of a good or a service, and ‘other subsidies on production’, which cover all other subsidies enterprises receives as a consequence of engaging in production. Data are in current local currency.