Cameroon vs Gabon: Subsidies

Cameroon
229.74 billion GFS, current LCU
in 2007
Gabon
108.39 billion GFS, current LCU
in 2008
Cameroon rank
6th
Gabon rank
9th

Subsidies over time

  • Cameroon
  • Gabon
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How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 229.74 billion GFS, current LCU against 108.39 billion GFS, current LCU in Gabon, a difference of 121.35 billion GFS, current LCU.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 2.1 times Gabon's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 24 shared years of data; in 1984 it was Gabon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 6th and Gabon ranks 9th 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.