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Botswana vs Namibia: Subsidies

Botswana
80.04 million current US$
in 2011
Namibia
36.03 million current US$
in 2006
Botswana rank
5th
Namibia rank
7th

Subsidies over time

  • Botswana
  • Namibia
-20.0M020.0M40.0M60.0M80.0M197519932011

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 80.04 million current US$ against 36.03 million current US$ in Namibia, a difference of 44.00 million current US$.

That makes Botswana's figure about 2.2 times Namibia's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 27 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Namibia ahead.

Botswana ranks 5th and Namibia ranks 7th of 24 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Subsidies (current US$)
Unit
current US$
Source
World Bank country economists
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
24 places, 507 data points, 1965–2011
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 U.S. dollars.