OECD members - Carbon dioxide damage

Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI)

Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) in OECD members was 0.905 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 0.999 in 1970, while its lowest value was 0.718 in 1995.

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:

Year Value
1970 0.999
1971 0.991
1972 0.957
1973 0.906
1974 0.880
1975 0.847
1976 0.884
1977 0.870
1978 0.815
1979 0.806
1980 0.785
1981 0.816
1982 0.863
1983 0.881
1984 0.906
1985 0.914
1986 0.802
1987 0.751
1988 0.726
1989 0.762
1990 0.741
1991 0.734
1992 0.728
1993 0.762
1994 0.753
1995 0.718
1996 0.761
1997 0.811
1998 0.827
1999 0.826
2000 0.865
2001 0.907
2002 0.911
2003 0.862
2004 0.821
2005 0.820
2006 0.817
2007 0.795
2008 0.771
2009 0.795
2010 0.804
2011 0.765
2012 0.783
2013 0.808
2014 0.811
2015 0.885
2016 0.891
2017 0.892
2018 0.883
2019 0.905

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts