12. Financing Health Systems in the 21st Century
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Table 12.2: Average Central Government Revenues, Early 2000s
Average Central Government Revenues, Early 2000s| Region and country income level | Total revenue as a percentage of GDP | Tax revenue as a percentage of GDP | Social security taxes as a percentage of GDP | | Americas | 20.0 | 16.3 | 2.3 | | Asia and the Pacific | 16.6 | 13.2 | 0.5 | | Central Europe, Baltic states, Russian Fed., and other former Soviet republics | 26.7 | 23.4 | 8.1 | | Middle East and North Africa | 26.2 | 17.1 | 0.8 | | Sub-Saharan Africa | 19.7 | 15.9 | 0.3 | | Small islands (population less than 1 million) | 32.0 | 24.5 | 2.8 | | LICs | 17.7 | 14.5 | 0.7 | | Lower-middle-income countries | 21.4 | 16.3 | 1.4 | | Upper-middle-income countries | 26.9 | 21.9 | 4.3 | | High-income countries | 31.9 | 26.5 | 7.2 | |
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