The Relationship Between Environment and GDP Analysis

To analyze the fectors affect CO2 emissions and will these fectors affect the growth of GDP

Data Sources:

the World Bank

Metrics:

forest area (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS)

Fossil fuel energy consumption (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.COMM.FO.ZS)

Alternative and nuclear energy (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.COMM.CL.ZS)

Electricity production from coal sources (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.COAL.ZS)

Renewable energy consumption (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.FEC.RNEW.ZS)

Analyze fectors:

CO2 emission per capita (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC)

GDP per capita (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD)

Tableau Publc Dashboard Link

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/jingqi.chang/viz/CO2Report_16292616459920/Story1?publish=yes

Analyze Report

At first, the average CO2 emission for each person was the highest in West Asia, and higher in Europe and North America than other countries in the nearest 2 decades. Because I considered the counties' who's CO2 emission is the most than others, so the map only showed top 30 countries with highest CO2 emission per capita.

To consider the relationship between CO2 Emission and GDP, I divided the coountries with high income countries, middle income countries and low income countries. Found that the countries who had higher CO2 emissions was more likely to be a high imcome country. (Blue cricle is high income country, yellow circle is middle income country and red circle is low income country)

The little circle means countries divided by income, big circle means CO2 emision.

We want to see more details about CO2 emission per capita in different area. In high income countries, each people consumed 5 times CO2 than people who living in middle income countries, and the CO2 emission for each person in middle income area is double of CO2 emission in low income area from 1960 to 2020. So people who was living in high income countries emitted much more carbon dioxide than people who was living in middle income and low income contries.

Let's compared CO2 emission and GDP growth for each person in different area. It is clear to compare CO2 emission and GDP growth in high income countries, middle income coountries and low income countries. Although high income countries' CO2 emission is 5 times of CO2 than middle income countries, its GDP is 9 times higher than middle income countries'.