CO₂ per person by country
Carbon dioxide released per person each year. The map opens on 2024, with figures for 213 countries.
Highest in 2024
- Qatar 41.3
- Kuwait 26.2
- Brunei 26
- Bahrain 24.3
- Trinidad and Tobago 22.9
Lowest in 2024
- Dem. Rep. Congo 0.054
- Burundi 0.0653
- Somalia 0.0694
- Central African Rep. 0.074
- Malawi 0.0869
About the data
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from burning fossil fuels and industrial processes. This includes emissions from transport, electricity generation, and heating, but not land-use change.
- Unit
- tonnes of CO₂ per person, per year
- Years
- 1858–2024
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Our World in Data
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- Our World in Data; Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0
All countries
- Afghanistan 0.254 (2024)
- Albania 1.59 (2024)
- Algeria 4.23 (2024)
- Andorra 5.18 (2024)
- Angola 0.589 (2024)
- Anguilla 10.1 (2024)
- Antigua and Barb. 7.09 (2024)
- Argentina 3.74 (2024)
- Armenia 2.5 (2024)
- Aruba 8.52 (2024)
- Australia 14.5 (2024)
- Austria 6.18 (2024)
- Azerbaijan 3.85 (2024)
- Bahamas 7.65 (2024)
- Bahrain 24.3 (2024)
- Bangladesh 0.624 (2024)
- Barbados 4.83 (2024)
- Belarus 6.16 (2024)
- Belgium 7.28 (2024)
- Belize 1.91 (2024)
- Benin 0.419 (2024)
- Bermuda 8.51 (2024)
- Bhutan 2.09 (2024)
- Bolivia 2.31 (2024)
- Bosnia and Herz. 6.14 (2024)
- Botswana 2.96 (2024)
- Brazil 2.28 (2024)
- British Virgin Is. 4.87 (2024)
- Brunei 26 (2024)
- Bulgaria 4.68 (2024)
- Burkina Faso 0.276 (2024)
- Burundi 0.0653 (2024)
- Cabo Verde 1.13 (2024)
- Cambodia 1.24 (2024)
- Cameroon 0.331 (2024)
- Canada 13.4 (2024)
- Caribbean Netherlands 4.95 (2024)
- Central African Rep. 0.074 (2024)
- Chad 0.139 (2024)
- Chile 3.98 (2024)
- China 8.66 (2024)
- Colombia 1.75 (2024)
- Comoros 0.637 (2024)
- Congo 1.4 (2024)
- Cook Is. 5.82 (2024)
- Costa Rica 1.71 (2024)
- Côte d'Ivoire 0.464 (2024)
- Croatia 4.76 (2024)
- Cuba 2.23 (2024)
- Curaçao 12.3 (2024)
- Cyprus 5.37 (2024)
- Czechia 7.04 (2024)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 0.054 (2024)
- Denmark 4.75 (2024)
- Djibouti 0.483 (2024)
- Dominica 2.58 (2024)
- Dominican Rep. 2.9 (2024)
- Ecuador 2.54 (2024)
- Egypt 2.22 (2024)
- El Salvador 1.42 (2024)
- Eq. Guinea 3.7 (2024)
- Eritrea 0.21 (2024)
- Estonia 6.11 (2024)
- eSwatini 0.841 (2024)
- Ethiopia 0.135 (2024)
- Faeroe Is. 13.1 (2024)
- Fiji 1.56 (2024)
- Finland 5.3 (2024)
- Fr. Polynesia 3.27 (2024)
- France 3.97 (2024)
- Gabon 2.13 (2024)
- Gambia 0.291 (2024)
- Georgia 3.09 (2024)
- Germany 6.77 (2024)
- Ghana 0.611 (2024)
- Greece 5.31 (2024)
- Greenland 11.1 (2024)
- Grenada 3.22 (2024)
- Guatemala 1.08 (2024)
- Guinea 0.273 (2024)
- Guinea-Bissau 0.155 (2024)
- Guyana 5.43 (2024)
- Haiti 0.252 (2024)
- Honduras 1.19 (2024)
- Hong Kong 4.49 (2024)
- Hungary 4.14 (2024)
- Iceland 9.67 (2024)
- India 2.2 (2024)
- Indonesia 2.87 (2024)
- Iran 8.66 (2024)
- Iraq 5.07 (2024)
- Ireland 6.34 (2024)
- Israel 5.61 (2024)
- Italy 5.09 (2024)
- Jamaica 2.96 (2024)
- Japan 7.77 (2024)
- Jordan 2.01 (2024)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 0.87 (2024)
- Kazakhstan 13.9 (2024)
- Kenya 0.376 (2024)
- Kiribati 0.539 (2024)
- Kosovo 4.78 (2024)
- Kuwait 26.2 (2024)
- Kyrgyzstan 1.64 (2024)
- Laos 3.14 (2024)
- Latvia 3.45 (2024)
- Lebanon 2.7 (2024)
- Lesotho 1.1 (2024)
- Liberia 0.153 (2024)
- Libya 8.84 (2024)
- Liechtenstein 3.3 (2024)
- Lithuania 4.39 (2024)
- Luxembourg 10.5 (2024)
- Macao 1.47 (2024)
- Madagascar 0.142 (2024)
- Malawi 0.0869 (2024)
- Malaysia 8.16 (2024)
- Maldives 4.37 (2024)
- Mali 0.285 (2024)
- Malta 3.2 (2024)
- Marshall Is. 4.11 (2024)
- Mauritania 1.01 (2024)
- Mauritius 3.68 (2024)
- Mexico 3.52 (2024)
- Micronesia 1.33 (2024)
- Moldova 1.76 (2024)
- Mongolia 12.9 (2024)
- Montenegro 3.72 (2024)
- Montserrat 6.02 (2024)
- Morocco 1.81 (2024)
- Mozambique 0.249 (2024)
- Myanmar 0.58 (2024)
- Namibia 1.14 (2024)
- Nauru 5.13 (2024)
- Nepal 0.633 (2024)
- Netherlands 6.3 (2024)
- New Caledonia 18.1 (2024)
- New Zealand 6.23 (2024)
- Nicaragua 0.814 (2024)
- Niger 0.117 (2024)
- Nigeria 0.584 (2024)
- Niue 4.14 (2024)
- North Korea 2.36 (2024)
- North Macedonia 3.63 (2024)
- Norway 6.67 (2024)
- Oman 15.7 (2024)
- Pakistan 0.716 (2024)
- Palau 12.8 (2024)
- Panama 2.8 (2024)
- Papua New Guinea 0.789 (2024)
- Paraguay 1.15 (2024)
- Peru 2.05 (2024)
- Philippines 1.51 (2024)
- Poland 7.08 (2024)
- Portugal 3.41 (2024)
- Qatar 41.3 (2024)
- Romania 3.61 (2024)
- Russia 12.3 (2024)
- Rwanda 0.143 (2024)
- S. Sudan 0.142 (2024)
- Saint Helena 2.16 (2024)
- Saint Lucia 2.99 (2024)
- Samoa 1.13 (2024)
- São Tomé and Principe 0.602 (2024)
- Saudi Arabia 20.4 (2024)
- Senegal 0.762 (2024)
- Serbia 6.24 (2024)
- Seychelles 5 (2024)
- Sierra Leone 0.166 (2024)
- Singapore 9.24 (2024)
- Sint Maarten 16.5 (2024)
- Slovakia 5.28 (2024)
- Slovenia 6.02 (2024)
- Solomon Is. 0.36 (2024)
- Somalia 0.0694 (2024)
- South Africa 6.87 (2024)
- South Korea 11.3 (2024)
- Spain 4.6 (2024)
- Sri Lanka 0.901 (2024)
- St. Kitts and Nevis 5.54 (2024)
- St. Pierre and Miquelon 9.79 (2024)
- St. Vin. and Gren. 2.54 (2024)
- Sudan 0.353 (2024)
- Suriname 4.71 (2024)
- Sweden 3.59 (2024)
- Switzerland 3.59 (2024)
- Syria 1.29 (2024)
- Tajikistan 1.01 (2024)
- Tanzania 0.292 (2024)
- Thailand 3.74 (2024)
- Timor-Leste 0.477 (2024)
- Togo 0.328 (2024)
- Tonga 1.46 (2024)
- Trinidad and Tobago 22.9 (2024)
- Tunisia 2.66 (2024)
- Turkey 5.87 (2024)
- Turkmenistan 10.8 (2024)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 8.14 (2024)
- Tuvalu 1.18 (2024)
- Uganda 0.127 (2024)
- Ukraine 3.76 (2024)
- United Arab Emirates 20.1 (2024)
- United Kingdom 4.53 (2024)
- United States of America 14.2 (2024)
- Uruguay 2.35 (2024)
- Uzbekistan 3.83 (2024)
- Vanuatu 0.601 (2024)
- Venezuela 4.09 (2024)
- Vietnam 3.67 (2024)
- Wallis and Futuna Is. 2.7 (2024)
- Yemen 0.249 (2024)
- Zambia 0.565 (2024)
- Zimbabwe 0.824 (2024)