Environmentally related tax revenue in OECD
OECD: Environmentally related tax revenue was 1.33 Percentage of GDP in 2024. ▼ Falling
Environmentally related tax revenue in OECD, 1994–2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of GDP.
Analysis
OECD recorded 1.33 Percentage of GDP for environmentally related tax revenue in 2024.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and down 18.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, environmentally related tax revenue in OECD peaked at 1.92 Percentage of GDP in 1999 and was at its lowest, 1.32 Percentage of GDP, in 2022.
That places OECD 47th out of 123 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 31 years of available data.
Environmentally related tax revenue in OECD, year by year
| Year | Percentage of GDP | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1.87 Percentage of GDP | — |
| 1995 | 1.86 Percentage of GDP | -0.4% |
| 1996 | 1.86 Percentage of GDP | -0.1% |
| 1997 | 1.85 Percentage of GDP | -0.6% |
| 1998 | 1.88 Percentage of GDP | +1.4% |
| 1999 | 1.92 Percentage of GDP | +2.1% |
| 2000 | 1.83 Percentage of GDP | -4.5% |
| 2001 | 1.83 Percentage of GDP | -0.2% |
| 2002 | 1.85 Percentage of GDP | +1.2% |
| 2003 | 1.85 Percentage of GDP | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 1.8 Percentage of GDP | -2.9% |
| 2005 | 1.76 Percentage of GDP | -1.8% |
| 2006 | 1.69 Percentage of GDP | -3.9% |
| 2007 | 1.66 Percentage of GDP | -2.2% |
| 2008 | 1.61 Percentage of GDP | -2.7% |
| 2009 | 1.65 Percentage of GDP | +2.1% |
| 2010 | 1.66 Percentage of GDP | +0.7% |
| 2011 | 1.66 Percentage of GDP | -0.0% |
| 2012 | 1.66 Percentage of GDP | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 1.66 Percentage of GDP | -0.2% |
| 2014 | 1.63 Percentage of GDP | -2.0% |
| 2015 | 1.69 Percentage of GDP | +3.8% |
| 2016 | 1.71 Percentage of GDP | +1.4% |
| 2017 | 1.65 Percentage of GDP | -3.5% |
| 2018 | 1.62 Percentage of GDP | -1.9% |
| 2019 | 1.6 Percentage of GDP | -1.0% |
| 2020 | 1.52 Percentage of GDP | -5.1% |
| 2021 | 1.46 Percentage of GDP | -4.4% |
| 2022 | 1.32 Percentage of GDP | -9.3% |
| 2023 | 1.33 Percentage of GDP | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 1.33 Percentage of GDP | -0.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1.87 Percentage of GDP | 1.85 Percentage of GDP | 1.92 Percentage of GDP | 6 |
| 2000s | 1.75 Percentage of GDP | 1.61 Percentage of GDP | 1.85 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2010s | 1.65 Percentage of GDP | 1.6 Percentage of GDP | 1.71 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2020s | 1.39 Percentage of GDP | 1.32 Percentage of GDP | 1.52 Percentage of GDP | 5 |
Countries ranked near OECD
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Frequently asked questions
- What is environmentally related tax revenue in OECD?
- Environmentally related tax revenue in OECD was 1.33 Percentage of GDP in 2024, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest environmentally related tax revenue recorded in OECD?
- The highest recorded value was 1.92 Percentage of GDP in 1999.
- What is the lowest environmentally related tax revenue recorded in OECD?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.32 Percentage of GDP in 2022.
- How does OECD rank for environmentally related tax revenue?
- OECD ranks 47th out of 123 countries with data for 2024.
- Is environmentally related tax revenue rising or falling in OECD?
- Over the last ten years it is down 18.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this OECD data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Environmentally related tax revenue. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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<!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.