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Comparative advantage in environmental goods (index) by country

Environmental goods include both goods connected to environmental protection—such as goods related to pollution management and resource management—and adapted goods—which are goods that have been specifically modified to be more “environmentally friendly” or “cleaner.” Comparative advantage is a measure of the...

Countries reporting
163
Highest
5.97 index
North Macedonia
Lowest
0.0001 index
Mauritania
Median
0.2677 index
Years covered
22
1998–2019
Data points
3,076

What the numbers show

Comparative advantage in environmental goods (index) is currently reported for 163 countries. The highest value is 5.97 index in North Macedonia; the lowest is 0.0001 index in Mauritania.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.2677 index, and the mean is 0.5221 index.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 50,474.

Over the past decade 86 countries rose and 76 fell. The largest increase was in Belize (up 28,575.1%), and the largest decrease in Qatar (down 99.8%).

Comparative advantage in environmental goods: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 North Macedonia 5.97 index 2019 up 2,083.1% volatile
2 Trinidad and Tobago 5.53 index 2015 up 26.3% rising
3 Fiji 2.43 index 2019 up 99.4% volatile
4 Togo 1.94 index 2019 up 343.4% volatile
5 Germany 1.83 index 2019 down 3.5% rising
6 Japan 1.79 index 2019 up 16.0% rising
7 Slovakia 1.54 index 2019 up 87.1% rising
8 Hungary 1.49 index 2019 up 3.7% rising
9 Israel 1.42 index 2019 up 78.5% rising
10 South Korea 1.39 index 2019 up 78.1% rising
11 Austria 1.39 index 2019 up 3.1% rising
12 Denmark 1.37 index 2019 down 21.5% falling
13 Sweden 1.37 index 2019 up 2.3% rising
14 Czechia 1.33 index 2019 down 1.3% rising
15 Portugal 1.26 index 2019 up 19.9% rising
16 Romania 1.23 index 2019 up 52.0% rising
17 Italy 1.22 index 2019 down 33.9% falling
18 Belgium 1.21 index 2019 up 43.7% rising
19 United Kingdom 1.19 index 2019 down 0.1% rising
20 United States 1.18 index 2019 down 13.2% falling
21 Luxembourg 1.16 index 2018 up 6.5% rising
22 Bulgaria 1.16 index 2019 up 63.8% rising
23 China 1.15 index 2019 up 11.8% rising
24 Poland 1.14 index 2019 up 23.2% rising
25 Lithuania 1.14 index 2019 up 59.6% rising
26 Slovenia 1.11 index 2019 down 20.6% flat
27 Malaysia 1.11 index 2019 up 67.4% rising
28 Palestine 1.02 index 2018 down 20.8% falling
29 Turkey 1.01 index 2019 up 44.4% rising
30 Netherlands 0.9806 index 2019 up 15.7% rising
31 France 0.9662 index 2019 down 14.9% falling
32 Mexico 0.9441 index 2019 down 19.4% flat
33 Estonia 0.9331 index 2019 up 44.1% rising
34 Georgia 0.9228 index 2019 up 36.2% falling
35 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.8972 index 2019 down 13.6% falling
36 Finland 0.8549 index 2019 down 30.3% rising
37 Tanzania 0.8088 index 2018 up 621.6% volatile
38 Serbia 0.8086 index 2019 up 29.3% rising
39 Thailand 0.7659 index 2019 down 5.0% rising
40 Spain 0.7422 index 2019 down 14.3% flat
41 South Africa 0.742 index 2019 down 40.9% falling
42 Singapore 0.7242 index 2019 up 9.2% rising
43 Canada 0.7003 index 2019 down 13.2% falling
44 Switzerland 0.6749 index 2019 down 46.2% falling
45 Tunisia 0.6703 index 2019 up 15.6% rising
46 Croatia 0.6596 index 2019 down 36.9% rising
47 Latvia 0.6188 index 2019 down 7.8% rising
48 El Salvador 0.6059 index 2019 down 42.7% rising
49 Hong Kong 0.5788 index 2019 up 11.0% flat
50 Bahamas 0.5585 index 2018 up 138.7% volatile
51 Vietnam 0.5516 index 2019 up 72.7% rising
52 Philippines 0.5294 index 2019 up 83.8% volatile
53 Egypt 0.5056 index 2019 up 75.1% rising
54 India 0.4907 index 2019 down 2.8% rising
55 Bermuda 0.4825 index 2019 down 52.9% falling
56 Sri Lanka 0.4813 index 2017 up 6.9% rising
57 Malta 0.4784 index 2019 up 12.9% rising
58 Iran 0.4711 index 2018 up 128.5% volatile
59 Oman 0.4641 index 2018 up 167.9% volatile
60 Greece 0.4619 index 2019 up 4.9% falling
61 Brazil 0.4435 index 2019 down 43.0% falling
62 Brunei 0.4409 index 2019 up 369.1% volatile
63 Lebanon 0.4348 index 2018 down 25.1% falling
64 Guatemala 0.4322 index 2019 down 23.8% rising
65 Norway 0.4266 index 2019 down 44.7% flat
66 Belarus 0.3972 index 2019 up 8.2% volatile
67 Syria 0.3909 index 2010 up 17,800.9% volatile
68 Moldova 0.389 index 2019 down 9.8% falling
69 Barbados 0.3786 index 2019 down 35.0% falling
70 Dominican Republic 0.3688 index 2018 up 93.3% volatile
71 Costa Rica 0.3497 index 2019 up 60.8% rising
72 Eswatini 0.3462 index 2019 down 56.5% rising
73 Andorra 0.3448 index 2018 down 57.1% falling
74 Indonesia 0.3404 index 2019 up 10.7% rising
75 Argentina 0.3328 index 2019 down 14.3% rising
76 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.3015 index 2017 up 149.5% volatile
77 Pakistan 0.3009 index 2019 up 6.2% rising
78 Jamaica 0.2947 index 2019 down 90.9% volatile
79 Jordan 0.2896 index 2019 down 2.6% falling
80 Cuba 0.2822 index 2006 up 2,525.8% volatile
81 Bahrain 0.2743 index 2018 down 28.4% rising
82 Montenegro 0.2677 index 2018 up 54.3% rising
83 Ukraine 0.2648 index 2018 down 64.8% falling
84 Grenada 0.2568 index 2008 down 57.5% volatile
85 Laos 0.246 index 2019 up 4,926.9% volatile
86 Saudi Arabia 0.2438 index 2019 up 25.4% rising
87 Bhutan 0.2415 index 2012 up 191.6% rising
88 Morocco 0.2377 index 2019 up 65.7% flat
89 Gabon 0.2366 index 2009 up 618.1% volatile
90 Ireland 0.2298 index 2019 down 33.4% rising
91 Russia 0.2289 index 2019 up 13.9% falling
92 United Arab Emirates 0.2268 index 2018 up 55.2% rising
93 New Zealand 0.2241 index 2019 down 48.4% falling
94 Nepal 0.2211 index 2017 up 536.9% volatile
95 Paraguay 0.2108 index 2019 up 708.1% volatile
96 Panama 0.2082 index 2016 down 2.3% volatile
97 Mauritius 0.206 index 2019 up 30.7% flat
98 Kenya 0.2023 index 2019 down 50.8% falling
99 Namibia 0.1904 index 2019 up 46.2% rising
100 Venezuela 0.1775 index 2013 down 36.6% volatile
101 Peru 0.1717 index 2019 down 15.4% rising
102 Australia 0.1567 index 2019 down 50.5% falling
103 Bolivia 0.1517 index 2018 up 26.2% falling
104 Armenia 0.1481 index 2019 down 42.9% flat
105 Mozambique 0.1394 index 2018 up 107.2% volatile
106 Chile 0.1356 index 2019 down 26.6% volatile
107 Cyprus 0.1325 index 2019 down 93.6% volatile
108 Honduras 0.1238 index 2019 down 65.6% falling
109 Colombia 0.1207 index 2019 down 34.4% falling
110 Cambodia 0.1179 index 2018 up 924.8% volatile
111 Malawi 0.1176 index 2019 down 69.3% volatile
112 Guinea 0.116 index 2016 up 3,137.4% volatile
113 Uganda 0.113 index 2018 up 23.2% volatile
114 Congo 0.11 index 2019 up 99.2% rising
115 Burundi 0.1046 index 2019 up 74.7% volatile
116 Ghana 0.0988 index 2019 down 71.9% volatile
117 Mali 0.0957 index 2017 up 153.8% rising
118 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0892 index 2019 down 58.8% volatile
119 Cameroon 0.0874 index 2016 up 396.3% volatile
120 Azerbaijan 0.0825 index 2019 up 680.7% volatile
121 Benin 0.0822 index 2019 up 88.9% volatile
122 Kuwait 0.0809 index 2018 up 312.1% rising
123 Tonga 0.0806 index 2014 up 306.8% volatile
124 Uruguay 0.0765 index 2019 down 38.7% falling
125 Senegal 0.0733 index 2019 down 55.8% volatile
126 Ecuador 0.069 index 2019 down 43.2% falling
127 Kyrgyzstan 0.0676 index 2019 down 68.4% falling
128 Rwanda 0.0667 index 2019 up 34.5% volatile
129 Iceland 0.0631 index 2019 down 31.5% falling
130 Dominica 0.0579 index 2012 down 65.2% volatile
131 Nicaragua 0.0534 index 2019 down 91.8% volatile
132 Papua New Guinea 0.0534 index 2012 down 15.8% flat
133 Lesotho 0.0533 index 2017 up 27.3% volatile
134 Samoa 0.0532 index 2019 down 37.2% volatile
135 Bangladesh 0.0519 index 2015 down 74.1% falling
136 Kazakhstan 0.0508 index 2019 up 26.6% volatile
137 Burkina Faso 0.0481 index 2019 down 9.5% volatile
138 Gambia 0.0439 index 2019 down 95.5% volatile
139 Belize 0.0422 index 2019 up 28,575.1% volatile
140 Madagascar 0.0421 index 2019 down 63.4% volatile
141 Ethiopia 0.042 index 2018 down 29.0% volatile
142 Suriname 0.0391 index 2019 down 35.5% falling
143 Aruba 0.037 index 2019 down 84.2% volatile
144 Central African Republic 0.0368 index 2018 up 30.7% volatile
145 Myanmar 0.0349 index 2019 up 1,493.2% volatile
146 Sierra Leone 0.0332 index 2018 — volatile
147 Seychelles 0.0327 index 2019 up 105.7% volatile
148 Niger 0.0291 index 2018 up 130.0% volatile
149 Macao 0.0252 index 2019 down 94.8% volatile
150 Botswana 0.0232 index 2019 down 60.6% falling
151 Vanuatu 0.0219 index 2011 up 8.2% volatile
152 Guyana 0.0171 index 2018 down 4.4% volatile
153 Mongolia 0.015 index 2019 up 69.5% volatile
154 Sudan 0.0079 index 2018 up 44.9% rising
155 Albania 0.0072 index 2018 down 88.2% volatile
156 Comoros 0.0054 index 2019 down 26.8% volatile
157 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0036 index 2019 up 1,716.0% volatile
158 Maldives 0.0024 index 2018 up 201.1% volatile
159 Nigeria 0.0016 index 2019 down 96.6% volatile
160 Cape Verde 0.0015 index 2019 down 99.2% volatile
161 Qatar 0.0002 index 2019 down 99.8% volatile
162 Algeria 0.0002 index 2017 down 99.7% volatile
163 Mauritania 0.0001 index 2019 up 778.2% volatile

About this data

Indicator
Comparative advantage in environmental goods (index)
Unit
index
Source
IMF Climate Change Dashboard. Data sources: UN Comtrade, DESA/UNSD; IMF staff calculations
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
163 places, 3,076 data points, 1998–2019
Last refreshed

Environmental goods include both goods connected to environmental protection—such as goods related to pollution management and resource management—and adapted goods—which are goods that have been specifically modified to be more “environmentally friendly” or “cleaner.” Comparative advantage is a measure of the relative advantage or disadvantage a particular country has in a certain class of goods (in this case, environmental goods), and can be used to evaluate export potential in that class of goods. Environmental goods include both goods connected to environmental protection—such as goods related to pollution management and resource management—and adapted goods—which are goods that have been specifically modified to be more “environmentally friendly” or “cleaner.” A value greater than one indicates a relative advantage in environmental goods, while a value of less than one indicates a relative disadvantage.