Gabon vs Rwanda: Subsidies

Gabon
108.39 billion GFS, current LCU
in 2008
Rwanda
223.22 billion GFS, current LCU
in 2011
Gabon rank
9th
Rwanda rank
7th

Subsidies over time

  • Gabon
  • Rwanda
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How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 223.22 billion GFS, current LCU against 108.39 billion GFS, current LCU in Gabon, a difference of 114.83 billion GFS, current LCU.

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

The two have swapped places 2 times across 19 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Rwanda ahead.

Gabon ranks 9th and Rwanda ranks 7th 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.