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Australia: Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (current US$)

16.94Bcurrent USD · 2021+47.0% since 2011

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 in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars. Annual figures for Australia from 1990 to 2021.

19902021

Every year

YearValue (current USD)Note
202116,940,636,306.126
202015,908,656,720.722
201915,762,276,197.805
201815,164,917,363.042
201714,561,235,979.169
201613,825,588,932.901
201513,137,170,576.199
201412,513,063,572.308
201312,292,697,767.599
201212,023,176,721.555
201111,525,092,340.08
201011,075,212,379.134
200910,916,912,713.241
200810,438,270,536.488
20079,934,315,466.891
20069,208,437,228.816
20058,610,604,983.452
20048,070,659,612.286
20037,408,721,963.592
20027,121,381,385.545
20016,707,780,494.131
20006,300,738,941.526
19995,923,688,715.301
19985,625,695,031.143
19975,096,795,530.194
19964,788,083,721.759
19954,436,022,640.722
19944,102,867,890.258
19933,828,713,516.801
19923,595,470,596.601
19913,391,377,959.074
19903,194,562,621.897

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World Bank (2026). Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (current US$). Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-adjusted-savings-carbon-dioxide-damage (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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