China vs United States of America: Environmentally related tax revenue
Environmentally related tax revenue over time
- China
- United States of America
How they compare
United States of America currently reports 0.6363 Percentage of GDP against 0.6038 Percentage of GDP in China, a difference of 0.0325 Percentage of GDP.
That makes United States of America's figure about 1.1 times China's.
The two have swapped places 2 times across 24 shared years of data; in 1998 it was United States of America ahead.
China ranks 82nd and United States of America ranks 81st of 123 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, China averaged higher in 1 and United States of America in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | China | United States of America | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 0.4219 Percentage of GDP | 1.02 Percentage of GDP | 0.5974 Percentage of GDP | United States of America |
| 2000s | 0.7876 Percentage of GDP | 0.8804 Percentage of GDP | 0.0928 Percentage of GDP | United States of America |
| 2010s | 1.15 Percentage of GDP | 0.7578 Percentage of GDP | 0.3882 Percentage of GDP | China |
| 2020s | 0.6156 Percentage of GDP | 0.6406 Percentage of GDP | 0.025 Percentage of GDP | United States of America |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher environmentally related tax revenue, China or United States of America?
- United States of America, at 0.6363 Percentage of GDP against 0.6038 Percentage of GDP in China as of 2021.
- What is the difference in environmentally related tax revenue between China and United States of America?
- 0.0325 Percentage of GDP, with United States of America ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for China and United States of America?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 1998 to 2021.
- How do China and United States of America rank globally for environmentally related tax revenue?
- China ranks 82nd and United States of America ranks 81st 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.