United Arab Emirates: Adjusted savings, carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2020, United Arab Emirates' adjusted savings, carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) rose 0.29 percentage points on 2019 (from 1.83% to 2.12%).

Across the 19 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2019), the average change was +0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.18 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.38 percentage points in 2009 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.26 percentage points in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2011 to 2020 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.07 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 69% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

Closest to United Arab Emirates in the 2020 ranking

• Syrian Arab Republic — 1st of 5: 9.85%
• Bahrain — 2nd of 5: 4.1%
• Saudi Arabia — 3rd of 5: 2.93%
• Cayman Islands — 5th of 5: 0.69%

What this measures

Cost of damage due to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the manufacture of cement, estimated to be US$40 per ton of CO2 (the unit damage in 2017 US dollars for CO2 emitted in 2020) times the number of tons of CO2 emitted. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross National Income (GNI) which is the total income earned by all residents within an economic territory during an accounting period. It is equal to gross domestic product plus earned income receivable from abroad minus earned income payable abroad.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 21 values

Adjusted savings, carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 1.22% (2021)
• Algeria — 4.91% (2021)
• Bahrain — 4.1% (2020)
• Djibouti — 0.45% (2021)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 3.01% (2021)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 8.62% (2021)
• Iraq — 3.44% (2021)
• Israel — 0.56% (2021)
• Jordan — 2.44% (2021)
• Kuwait

More economic policy & debt data for United Arab Emirates

• Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$48.24 billion (2025)
• Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) — 8.26% (2024)
• GDP (current US$) — US$552.33 billion (2024)
• GDP (current LCU) — 2.03 trillion (2024)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$457.09 billion (2024)
• GDP (constant LCU) — 1.78 trillion (2024)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$50,274 (2024)
• GDP per capita (current LCU) — 184,629 (2024)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$41,605 (2024)
• GDP per capita (constant LCU)

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Questions people ask

What is United Arab Emirates's adjusted savings, carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI)?

2.12% in 2020, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2000?

It is up 0.68 percentage points from 1.44% in 2000. The highest value was 2.12% in 2020 and the lowest 1.27% in 2007.

Is the latest change in adjusted savings, carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) unusual for United Arab Emirates?

In 2020, United Arab Emirates' adjusted savings, carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI) rose 0.29 percentage points on 2019 (from 1.83% to 2.12%). Across the 19 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2019), the average change was +0.02 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.18 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.5 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.ADJ.DCO2.GN.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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