Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Cost of damage due to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the manufacture of cement, estimated to be US$30 per ton of CO2 (the unit damage in 2014 US dollars for CO2 emitted in 2015) times the number of tons of CO2 emitted.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in "The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future" (Lange et al 2018).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Libya 7.44 2019
2 South Africa 5.45 2019
3 Algeria 3.89 2019
4 Egypt 3.74 2019
5 Tunisia 3.48 2019
6 Lesotho 3.35 2019
7 Mozambique 3.12 2019
8 Sudan 2.75 2019
9 Senegal 2.73 2019
10 Togo 2.56 2019
11 Liberia 2.52 2019
12 Morocco 2.24 2019
13 Benin 2.22 2019
14 Equatorial Guinea 2.19 2019
15 Zimbabwe 2.16 2019
16 Mauritania 1.76 2019
17 Botswana 1.75 2019
18 Angola 1.73 2019
19 Madagascar 1.69 2019
20 The Gambia 1.56 2019
21 Congo 1.54 2019
22 Gabon 1.43 2019
23 Namibia 1.43 2019
24 Seychelles 1.42 2019
25 Sierra Leone 1.34 2019
26 Ghana 1.33 2019
27 São Tomé and Principe 1.27 2019
28 Cabo Verde 1.25 2019
29 Burkina Faso 1.21 2019
30 Guinea 1.20 2019
31 Mauritius 1.18 2019
32 Zambia 1.16 2019
33 Eswatini 1.16 2019
34 Nigeria 1.14 2019
35 Mali 1.08 2019
36 Somalia 1.06 1990
37 Tanzania 1.06 2019
38 Cameroon 0.95 2019
39 Guinea-Bissau 0.94 2019
40 Kenya 0.94 2019
41 Niger 0.90 2019
42 Côte d'Ivoire 0.89 2019
43 Burundi 0.88 2019
44 Eritrea 0.85 2011
45 Comoros 0.84 2019
46 Uganda 0.84 2019
47 Ethiopia 0.83 2019
48 Djibouti 0.74 2019
49 Malawi 0.72 2019
50 Central African Republic 0.66 2019
51 Rwanda 0.58 2019
52 Chad 0.34 2019
53 Dem. Rep. Congo 0.19 2019

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Statistical Concept and Methodology: Pollution damage from emissions of carbon dioxide is calculated as the marginal social cost per unit multiplied by the increase in the stock of carbon dioxide. The unit damage figure represents the present value of global damage to economic assets and to human welfare over the time the unit of pollution remains in the atmosphere.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual