Botswana vs Equatorial Guinea: Subsidies

Botswana
9.12 billion GFS, current LCU
in 2011
Equatorial Guinea
42.30 billion GFS, current LCU
in 2005
Botswana rank
18th
Equatorial Guinea rank
15th

Subsidies over time

  • Botswana
  • Equatorial Guinea
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How they compare

Equatorial Guinea currently reports 42.30 billion GFS, current LCU against 9.12 billion GFS, current LCU in Botswana, a difference of 33.17 billion GFS, current LCU.

That makes Equatorial Guinea's figure about 4.6 times Botswana's.

Across all 12 years both countries report, Equatorial Guinea has been ahead every year.

Botswana ranks 18th and Equatorial Guinea ranks 15th 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.