Dataset · OECD
Environmentally Related Tax Revenue
31 years, 1994–2024 · 112 countries · 5 measures
Environmentally related taxes are taxes on things with a proven effect on the environment — fuels and electricity, motor vehicles, pollution and waste, and natural resources. Measured against GDP, this OECD series shows how much revenue a country raises from them; most of it comes from taxes on energy, above all on road fuel.
This site holds every year from 1994 to 2024, read from OECD’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Environmentally Related Tax Revenue · the file
- Newest
- Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2024
- Held
- 31 years · 3,850 rows
- Licence
- OECD terms
0131 years
Every year
Every year comes from OECD’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2024Newest | 112 | −16 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2023 | 128 | −1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2022 | 129 | −3 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2021 | 132 | −3 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2020 | 135 | −1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2019 | 136 | −1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2018 | 137 | +2 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2017 | 135 | −1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2016 | 136 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2015 | 136 | +1 −2 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2014 | 137 | ±0 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
| Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 2013 | 137 | +1 | October 3, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 31 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: environmental-tax-revenue-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
028 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
Environmentally related tax revenue (% of GDP)is built fromEnergy tax bases (% of GDP)Transport tax bases (% of GDP)Pollution tax bases (% of GDP)Resource tax bases (% of GDP)
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 112 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 112 | 0 | |
Environmentally related tax revenue (% of GDP)env_tax_gdpHeadline | The headline figure: Environmentally related tax revenue (% of GDP). | Number · up to 19 decimals | 0.000006 share it3.34595 | 107 | 0 | |
Energy tax bases (% of GDP)energy_taxesPart of the headline | Taxes on energy products such as petrol, diesel, other fuels and electricity, carbon taxes included, as a share of GDP. | Number · up to 20 decimals | 0.00000018 share it2.428783 | 89 | 6 | |
Transport tax bases (% of GDP)transport_taxesPart of the headline | One-off and recurrent taxes on buying, registering, owning or using motor vehicles and other transport, as a share of GDP; taxes on motor fuel count under energy instead. | Number · up to 20 decimals | 0.00000015 share it1.604530 | 91 | 7 | |
Pollution tax bases (% of GDP)pollution_taxesPart of the headline | Taxes on measured or estimated emissions to air and water, on ozone-depleting substances, on packaging and on waste, as a share of GDP. | Number · up to 20 decimals | 0.00000053 share it0.419253 | 49 | 11 | |
Resource tax bases (% of GDP)resource_taxesPart of the headline | Taxes on extracting natural resources such as water, forest products, fish and minerals, mining royalties included, as a share of GDP. | Number · up to 18 decimals | 0.0000055 share it1.80202 | 48 | 10 | |
OECD observation statusobservation_statusFlag | OECD’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure. | Text | — | 2 | 64 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03141 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 36 | 28 |
| Americas | 30 | 30 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 27 |
| Asia | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 23 |
| Europe | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 27 |
| Oceania | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| All | 137 | 137 | 136 | 136 | 135 | 137 | 136 | 135 | 132 | 129 | 128 | 112 |
The newest 12 of 31 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2024
− Australia
− Bulgaria
− Botswana
− DR Congo
− Cyprus
− Croatia
− South Korea
− Lesotho
− Madagascar
− Malta
− Mozambique
− Poland
− Romania
− Eswatini
− Tunisia
− South Africa
- 2023
− Guinea
- 2022
− China
− Liechtenstein
− United States
- 2021
− Burkina Faso
− Canada
− Fiji
- 2020
− Ukraine
- 2019
− India
- 2018
+ South Korea
+ Malaysia
- 2017
− Serbia
Not in this dataset · 84 places this site covers
OECD gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
OECD
2 · Their file
Environmentally Related Tax Revenue 2024
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
31 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as environmental-tax-revenue-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 19 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Read from the OECD's Environmentally Related Tax Revenue database, built on its Policy Instruments for the Environment (PINE) database, through the OECD's SDMX API. The four tax bases — energy, transport, pollution and resources — are stored beside the total, with the OECD's flag on each reading; the OECD's regional totals and averages are left out.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
The OECD’s own terms for its data: reuse, including commercial reuse, with the OECD credited as the source.
In plain words
The OECD lets anyone reuse its data for any purpose, commercial use included, provided the OECD is credited and anyone re-licensing the data passes the same credit requirement on.
A credit line
Source: OECD, Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
OECD. Environmentally Related Tax Revenue, 1994–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/environmental-tax-revenue
The publisher’s own citation: OECD (2026), Environmentally related tax revenue, OECD Data Explorer, https://data-explorer.oecd.org/ (accessed on 3 October 2026).
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Environmentally Related Tax Revenue by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Account Ownership at a Financial InstitutionWorld Bank Group · 5 held · 2011–2024
- Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of CreditWorld Bank Group · 1 held · 2025
- Inflation, GDP DeflatorWorld Bank Group · 65 held · 1961–2025
07Questions
Environmentally Related Tax Revenue: questions and answers
What is the Environmentally Related Tax Revenue?
Environmentally related taxes are taxes on things with a proven effect on the environment — fuels and electricity, motor vehicles, pollution and waste, and natural resources. Measured against GDP, this OECD series shows how much revenue a country raises from them; most of it comes from taxes on energy, above all on road fuel.
Which years of the Environmentally Related Tax Revenue can I download?
All 31, from 1994 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does OECD rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under OECD Terms and Conditions — data clause, with credit to OECD. The licence text is linked on this page.