CO₂ emissions per person

Tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted per person, excluding land use.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: European Commission Joint Research Centre, EDGAR database
years covered: 1970–2024
subject: Environment

Higher is generally taken as worse.

How this is measured

Emissions from fuel combustion and industrial processes, divided by population, excluding land use and forestry. Counted where the emissions occur, not where the goods are consumed — so a country that imports what it once manufactured shows a fall that partly happened somewhere else.

Ranked for 2024

165 countries and territories have a figure for 2024. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1970.

#	Country	Region	CO₂
1	Somalia	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.05
2	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.06
3	Central African Republic	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.06
4	Burundi	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.07
5	Niger	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.12
6	Chad	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.14
7	Madagascar	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.15
8	Ethiopia	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.15
9	Liberia	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.15
10	Guinea-Bissau	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.16
11	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.16
12	Uganda	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.17
13	Sierra Leone	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.17
14	Gambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.18
15	Eritrea	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.22
16	Malawi	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.22
17	Yemen	Middle East & North Africa	0.26
18	Burkina Faso	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.27
19	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	0.28
20	Mozambique	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.29
21	Haiti	Americas	0.30
22	Mali	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.30
23	Tanzania	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.31
24	Togo	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.31
25	Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.35
26	Cameroon	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.35
27	Kenya	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.38
28	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	0.38
29	Lesotho	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.43
30	Sudan	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.43
31	Benin	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.49
32	Timor-Leste	Asia-Pacific	0.50
33	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	0.52
34	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	0.54
35	Zambia	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.54
36	Nigeria	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.57
37	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	0.58
38	Côte d'Ivoire	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.59
39	Ghana	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.70
40	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	0.72
41	Angola	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.74
42	Djibouti	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.77
43	Senegal	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.77
44	Zimbabwe	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.77
45	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	0.81
46	Nicaragua	Americas	0.83
47	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	0.87
48	Eswatini	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.88
49	Tajikistan	Eurasia	0.92
50	Belize	Americas	0.93
51	Mauritania	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.97
52	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	1.06
53	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	1.10
54	Guatemala	Americas	1.11
55	Honduras	Americas	1.14
56	Paraguay	Americas	1.16
57	Namibia	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.20
58	Syria	Middle East & North Africa	1.27
59	Congo	Sub-Saharan Africa	1.34
60	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	1.49
61	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	1.50
62	El Salvador	Americas	1.51
63	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	1.62
64	Costa Rica	Americas	1.63
65	Albania	Europe	1.79
66	Colombia	Americas	1.80
67	Morocco	Middle East & North Africa	1.84
68	Lebanon	Middle East & North Africa	1.90
69	Cuba	Americas	1.91
70	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	2.01
71	Peru	Americas	2.02
72	Gabon	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.05
73	Jordan	Middle East & North Africa	2.09
74	India	Asia-Pacific	2.17
75	Bolivia	Americas	2.29
76	Brazil	Americas	2.32
77	Armenia	Eurasia	2.47
78	North Korea	Asia-Pacific	2.50
79	Egypt	Middle East & North Africa	2.50
80	Equatorial Guinea	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.55
81	Uruguay	Americas	2.57
82	Tunisia	Middle East & North Africa	2.62
83	Ecuador	Americas	2.64
84	Botswana	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.74
85	Panama	Americas	2.74
86	Jamaica	Americas	2.84
87	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	2.87
88	Dominican Republic	Americas	2.99
89	Ukraine	Eurasia	3.13
90	Portugal	Europe	3.32
91	Laos	Asia-Pacific	3.35
92	Venezuela	Americas	3.39
93	Moldova	Eurasia	3.42
94	Georgia	Eurasia	3.53
95	Sweden	Europe	3.57
96	Bahamas	Americas	3.64
97	Mexico	Americas	3.64
98	Latvia	Europe	3.65
99	Romania	Europe	3.72
100	Switzerland	Europe	3.75
101	Azerbaijan	Eurasia	3.81
102	Chile	Americas	3.94
103	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	3.96
104	Algeria	Middle East & North Africa	3.98
105	North Macedonia	Europe	4.00
106	France	Europe	4.00
107	Argentina	Americas	4.01
108	Suriname	Americas	4.06
109	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	4.09
110	United Kingdom	Europe	4.22
111	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	4.27
112	Denmark	Europe	4.28
113	Hungary	Europe	4.46
114	Lithuania	Europe	4.49
115	Spain	Europe	4.51
116	Guyana	Americas	4.56
117	Puerto Rico	Americas	4.82
118	Croatia	Europe	4.83
119	Greece	Europe	5.05
120	Italy	Europe	5.08
121	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	5.18
122	Bulgaria	Europe	5.31
123	Turkey	Eurasia	5.38
124	Cyprus	Europe	5.40
125	Slovakia	Europe	5.51
126	Finland	Europe	5.54
127	Israel	Middle East & North Africa	5.77
128	Belarus	Eurasia	5.94
129	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	6.01
130	Ireland	Europe	6.04
131	Slovenia	Europe	6.27
132	Austria	Europe	6.32
133	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	6.45
134	Netherlands	Europe	6.60
135	South Africa	Sub-Saharan Africa	6.88
136	Germany	Europe	6.94
137	Czechia	Europe	7.13
138	Norway	Europe	7.18
139	Belgium	Europe	7.31
140	Poland	Europe	7.55
141	Estonia	Europe	7.76
142	Japan	Asia-Pacific	7.84
143	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	7.85
144	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	8.32
145	Iceland	Europe	8.52
146	Libya	Middle East & North Africa	8.66
147	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	9.05
148	China	Asia-Pacific	9.32
149	Greenland	Americas	10.45
150	Luxembourg	Europe	10.56
151	Turkmenistan	Eurasia	10.86
152	South Korea	Asia-Pacific	11.36
153	Kazakhstan	Eurasia	12.57
154	United States	Americas	13.62
155	Russia	Eurasia	13.99
156	Canada	Americas	14.01
157	Australia	Asia-Pacific	14.10
158	New Caledonia	Asia-Pacific	17.08
159	United Arab Emirates	Middle East & North Africa	18.26
160	Saudi Arabia	Middle East & North Africa	18.49
161	Oman	Middle East & North Africa	18.65
162	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	19.58
163	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	20.24
164	Kuwait	Middle East & North Africa	23.67
165	Qatar	Middle East & North Africa	47.33

Data by year

Show 55 yearly JSON rankings

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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