Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) - Country Ranking - Central America & the Caribbean

Definition: Cost of damage due to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the manufacture of cement, estimated to be US$30 per ton of CO2 (the unit damage in 2014 US dollars for CO2 emitted in 2015) times the number of tons of CO2 emitted.

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: Thematic map, Time series comparison

Find indicator:
Rank Country Value Year
1 Trinidad and Tobago 7.17 2019
2 Jamaica 2.05 2019
3 Honduras 1.88 2019
4 Antigua and Barbuda 1.80 2019
5 Nicaragua 1.71 2019
6 Belize 1.38 2019
7 Dominican Republic 1.32 2019
8 Dominica 1.26 2019
9 El Salvador 1.16 2019
10 Cuba 1.13 2016
11 Grenada 1.09 2019
12 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1.09 2019
13 Guatemala 1.02 2019
14 Barbados 0.99 2019
15 St. Kitts and Nevis 0.99 2019
16 St. Lucia 0.92 2019
17 Haiti 0.88 2019
18 Panama 0.75 2019
19 Cayman Islands 0.68 2017
20 The Bahamas 0.61 2019
21 Costa Rica 0.55 2019
22 Puerto Rico 0.23 2019

More rankings: Africa | Asia | Central America & the Caribbean | Europe | Middle East | North America | Oceania | South America | World |

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Pollution damage from emissions of carbon dioxide is calculated as the marginal social cost per unit multiplied by the increase in the stock of carbon dioxide. The unit damage figure represents the present value of global damage to economic assets and to human welfare over the time the unit of pollution remains in the atmosphere.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual