Bilateral economic damage from carbon dioxide emissions, cumulative from 1990–2020. Each country's greenhouse gas emissions cause warming that affects GDP in every other country. Values in 2020 USD (millions), or in % change in GDP in 2020.
Data are from Burke, Zahid, Diffenbaugh, Hsiang. "Quantifying loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon", Nature, forthcoming.
Select an emitting country to see the economic damages its emissions caused worldwide — or switch to "Damages Received" to see whose emissions caused damage in a country. Dropdown menu is sorted from largest to smallest source of damage.
Enter annual CO₂ emissions (metric tons) for 1990–2020 to compute the economic damages caused worldwide. Paste 31 comma-separated values, one per year, or use one of the preset time series. Select the desired discount rate.