Euro area - Particulate emission damage

Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage (% of GNI)

Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage (% of GNI) in Euro area was 0.051 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 0.147 in 1990, while its lowest value was 0.051 in 2018.

Definition: Particulate emissions damage is the damage due to exposure of a country's population to ambient concentrations of particulates measuring less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5), ambient ozone pollution, and indoor concentrations of PM2.5 in households cooking with solid fuels. Damages are calculated as foregone labor income due to premature death. Estimates of health impacts from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Data for other years have been extrapolated from trends in mortality rates.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in "The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future" (Lange et al 2018).

See also:

Year Value
1990 0.147
1991 0.139
1992 0.129
1993 0.124
1994 0.116
1995 0.110
1996 0.107
1997 0.101
1998 0.095
1999 0.091
2000 0.086
2001 0.083
2002 0.082
2003 0.080
2004 0.075
2005 0.073
2006 0.070
2007 0.069
2008 0.070
2009 0.073
2010 0.070
2011 0.067
2012 0.066
2013 0.063
2014 0.059
2015 0.057
2016 0.053
2017 0.051
2018 0.051
2019 0.051

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts