North America - Particulate emission damage

Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage (% of GNI)

Adjusted savings: particulate emission damage (% of GNI) in North America was 0.065 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 29 years was 0.161 in 1990, while its lowest value was 0.065 in 2019.

Definition: Particulate emissions damage is the damage due to exposure of a country's population to ambient concentrations of particulates measuring less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5), ambient ozone pollution, and indoor concentrations of PM2.5 in households cooking with solid fuels. Damages are calculated as foregone labor income due to premature death. Estimates of health impacts from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Data for other years have been extrapolated from trends in mortality rates.

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:

Year Value
1990 0.161
1991 0.156
1992 0.152
1993 0.148
1994 0.145
1995 0.140
1996 0.135
1997 0.130
1998 0.123
1999 0.121
2000 0.120
2001 0.122
2002 0.123
2003 0.121
2004 0.115
2005 0.112
2006 0.107
2007 0.101
2008 0.099
2009 0.097
2010 0.088
2011 0.085
2012 0.081
2013 0.078
2014 0.073
2015 0.072
2016 0.070
2017 0.066
2018 0.066
2019 0.065

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts