Germany vs South Africa: Environmentally related tax revenue
Environmentally related tax revenue over time
- Germany
- South Africa
How they compare
South Africa currently reports 1.83 Percentage of GDP against 1.68 Percentage of GDP in Germany, a difference of 0.15 Percentage of GDP.
That makes South Africa's figure about 1.1 times Germany's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 30 shared years of data; in 1994 it was Germany ahead.
Germany ranks 31st and South Africa ranks 28th of 123 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, Germany averaged higher in 3 and South Africa in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Germany | South Africa | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2.23 Percentage of GDP | 1.74 Percentage of GDP | 0.4911 Percentage of GDP | Germany |
| 2000s | 2.36 Percentage of GDP | 1.55 Percentage of GDP | 0.8111 Percentage of GDP | Germany |
| 2010s | 1.91 Percentage of GDP | 1.79 Percentage of GDP | 0.1242 Percentage of GDP | Germany |
| 2020s | 1.66 Percentage of GDP | 1.87 Percentage of GDP | 0.2087 Percentage of GDP | South Africa |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher environmentally related tax revenue, Germany or South Africa?
- South Africa, at 1.83 Percentage of GDP against 1.68 Percentage of GDP in Germany as of 2023.
- What is the difference in environmentally related tax revenue between Germany and South Africa?
- 0.15 Percentage of GDP, with South Africa ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Germany and South Africa?
- 30 years are reported by both, from 1994 to 2023.
- How do Germany and South Africa rank globally for environmentally related tax revenue?
- Germany ranks 31st and South Africa ranks 28th 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.