Kuwait vs Qatar: Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage

Kuwait

3.84 billion current US$

in 2021

Qatar

4.09 billion current US$

in 2021

Kuwait rank

43rd

Qatar rank

40th

Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage over time

Kuwait
Qatar

How they compare

Qatar currently reports 4.09 billion current US$ against 3.84 billion current US$ in Kuwait, a difference of 250.92 million current US$.

That makes Qatar's figure about 1.1 times Kuwait's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 32 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Kuwait ahead.

Globally, Kuwait ranks 43rd and Qatar ranks 40th of 209 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (current US$)
Unit: current US$
Source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 209 places, 6,864 data points, 1970–2021
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

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.