Australia vs Switzerland: Environmentally related tax revenue
Environmentally related tax revenue over time
- Australia
- Switzerland
How they compare
Australia currently reports 1.49 Percentage of GDP against 1.44 Percentage of GDP in Switzerland, a difference of 0.05 Percentage of GDP.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Australia ahead.
Australia ranks 42nd and Switzerland ranks 43rd of 123 countries.
Australia has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Australia | Switzerland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2.83 Percentage of GDP | 1.57 Percentage of GDP | 1.26 Percentage of GDP | Australia |
| 2000s | 2.37 Percentage of GDP | 1.68 Percentage of GDP | 0.6976 Percentage of GDP | Australia |
| 2010s | 2.09 Percentage of GDP | 1.66 Percentage of GDP | 0.4337 Percentage of GDP | Australia |
| 2020s | 1.57 Percentage of GDP | 1.55 Percentage of GDP | 0.0271 Percentage of GDP | Australia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher environmentally related tax revenue, Australia or Switzerland?
- Australia, at 1.49 Percentage of GDP against 1.44 Percentage of GDP in Switzerland as of 2023.
- What is the difference in environmentally related tax revenue between Australia and Switzerland?
- 0.05 Percentage of GDP, with Australia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Australia and Switzerland?
- 30 years are reported by both, from 1994 to 2023.
- How do Australia and Switzerland rank globally for environmentally related tax revenue?
- Australia ranks 42nd and Switzerland ranks 43rd of 123 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Environmentally related tax revenue. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
<!DOCTYPE html> ERTR Database body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; } p { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; } Environmentally related taxes are effective policy instruments to shape relative prices of goods and services. The Environmental Related Tax Revenue Database (ERTR) categorises taxes based on their environmental relevance, constructing environmentally related tax revenue with a breakdown by tax-base category (including energy, transport, pollution, and resources) and 22 environmental domains. Note that tax-base categories are mutually exclusive, while domains are not. Therefore, one should not aggregate revenue across domains as it may lead to double counting. Data source(s): ERTR draws from the OECD Policy Instruments for the Environment (PINE) database. The database contains detailed qualitative and quantitative information on environmentally related taxes and fees, tradable permits and offsets, deposit-refund schemes, environmentally beneficial subsidies and payments and voluntary approaches used for environmental policy. It is updated annually and covers OECD member countries, accession countries and selected non-OECD countries. The data has been cross-validated and complemented with Revenue statistics from the Global Revenue Statistics databases, Eurostat National Tax Lists, and official national sources. Contact: pinedatabase@oecd.org Dataset release date: July 2026 For further details on the dataset consult the dataset documentation and oe.cd/pine. For revenue data at the individual-tax level, please consult https://oe.cd/pinedatabase.