Environmentally related tax revenue in United States
United States: Environmentally related tax revenue was 0.6363 Percentage of GDP in 2021. ▼ Falling
Environmentally related tax revenue in United States, 1994–2021
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of GDP.
Analysis
The most recent figure for environmentally related tax revenue in United States is 0.6363 Percentage of GDP, measured in 2021. That is the lowest value across all 28 years on record.
That represents a change of down 1.3% on the previous year and down 21.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, environmentally related tax revenue in United States peaked at 1.13 Percentage of GDP in 1994 and was at its lowest, 0.6363 Percentage of GDP, in 2021.
United States ranks 81st of 123 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 28 years of available data.
Environmentally related tax revenue in United States, year by year
| Year | Percentage of GDP | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1.13 Percentage of GDP | — |
| 1995 | 1.13 Percentage of GDP | -0.2% |
| 1996 | 1.06 Percentage of GDP | -5.8% |
| 1997 | 1.04 Percentage of GDP | -2.2% |
| 1998 | 1.03 Percentage of GDP | -1.4% |
| 1999 | 1.01 Percentage of GDP | -1.2% |
| 2000 | 0.9774 Percentage of GDP | -3.5% |
| 2001 | 0.9413 Percentage of GDP | -3.7% |
| 2002 | 0.927 Percentage of GDP | -1.5% |
| 2003 | 0.9027 Percentage of GDP | -2.6% |
| 2004 | 0.8828 Percentage of GDP | -2.2% |
| 2005 | 0.8736 Percentage of GDP | -1.0% |
| 2006 | 0.8535 Percentage of GDP | -2.3% |
| 2007 | 0.8341 Percentage of GDP | -2.3% |
| 2008 | 0.8039 Percentage of GDP | -3.6% |
| 2009 | 0.8072 Percentage of GDP | +0.4% |
| 2010 | 0.8011 Percentage of GDP | -0.8% |
| 2011 | 0.8052 Percentage of GDP | +0.5% |
| 2012 | 0.7903 Percentage of GDP | -1.8% |
| 2013 | 0.7637 Percentage of GDP | -3.4% |
| 2014 | 0.7517 Percentage of GDP | -1.6% |
| 2015 | 0.7515 Percentage of GDP | -0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.7411 Percentage of GDP | -1.4% |
| 2017 | 0.7249 Percentage of GDP | -2.2% |
| 2018 | 0.7283 Percentage of GDP | +0.5% |
| 2019 | 0.7201 Percentage of GDP | -1.1% |
| 2020 | 0.6448 Percentage of GDP | -10.5% |
| 2021 | 0.6363 Percentage of GDP | -1.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1.07 Percentage of GDP | 1.01 Percentage of GDP | 1.13 Percentage of GDP | 6 |
| 2000s | 0.8804 Percentage of GDP | 0.8039 Percentage of GDP | 0.9774 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.7578 Percentage of GDP | 0.7201 Percentage of GDP | 0.8052 Percentage of GDP | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.6406 Percentage of GDP | 0.6363 Percentage of GDP | 0.6448 Percentage of GDP | 2 |
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- Services, value added (current US$), annual growth rate 9.94 % change on previous year (2021)
- Services, value added (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.7626 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2021)
- Services, value added (current US$), per capita 54,478 current US$ per person (2021)
- Services, value added (current LCU), annual growth rate 9.94 % change on previous year (2021)
- Services, value added (current LCU), per unit of GDP 0.7626 current LCU per US$ of GDP (2021)
- Services, value added (current LCU), per capita 54,478 current LCU per person (2021)
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country), annual growth rate 2.8 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gross value added at basic prices (GVA) (current US$), annual growth 10.53 % change on previous year (2021)
Frequently asked questions
- What is environmentally related tax revenue in United States?
- Environmentally related tax revenue in United States was 0.6363 Percentage of GDP in 2021, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest environmentally related tax revenue recorded in United States?
- The highest recorded value was 1.13 Percentage of GDP in 1994.
- What is the lowest environmentally related tax revenue recorded in United States?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.6363 Percentage of GDP in 2021.
- How does United States rank for environmentally related tax revenue?
- United States ranks 81st out of 123 countries with data for 2021.
- Is environmentally related tax revenue rising or falling in United States?
- Over the last ten years it is down 21.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this United States 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.