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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951

Figures for 1951, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951 covers 175 countries. Sint Maarten is highest, at 693.18508; Saudi Arabia is lowest, at 0.00000. The middle country reads 0.47054. Against 1950, 173 values changed (118 up, 55 down), 2 countries joined.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1951

HighestSint Maarten

693.18508

LowestSaudi Arabia

0.00000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951, as published. Global Carbon Project ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 175 countries · select a heading to sort

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean693.18508
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean92.63320
3LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe30.25300
4United StatesUSANorthern America16.73493
5QatarQATWestern Asia15.49384
6ArubaABWCaribbean14.72848
7CanadaCANNorthern America11.55139
8United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe10.80090
9BelgiumBELWestern Europe10.33498
10BahrainBHRWestern Asia9.74032
11VenezuelaVENSouth America8.26507
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe8.26332
13AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand7.25196
14KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia6.97476
15CzechiaCZEEastern Europe6.85195
16EstoniaESTNorthern Europe6.65497
17BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia5.86927
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe5.59783
19FranceFRAWestern Europe5.40811
20NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe5.35694
21DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe5.10025
22South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa4.88905
23PolandPOLEastern Europe4.83330
24TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia4.73684
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe4.73368

02In 1951

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sint Maarten693.18508
  2. 2Curaçao92.63320
  3. 3Luxembourg30.25300
  4. 4United States16.73493
  5. 5Qatar15.49384

Lowest

  1. 175Saudi Arabia0.00000
  2. 174Burkina Faso0.00080
  3. 173Nepal0.00342
  4. 172Ethiopia0.00346
  5. 171Burundi0.00381

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.47054. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031950 → 1951

Since 1950

What changed between 1950 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 173values changed, of 173 in both
  • 118 · 55rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Dominica+ São Tomé and Príncipe

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • The position is ours

    Global Carbon Project publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 175 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Global Carbon Project (1951). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951 [data set], describing 1951. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1951

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951?

Sint Maarten, at 693.18508, of the 175 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951 describe?

1951.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951 cover?

175.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1951 the newest?

No. The newest held here is CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2024.

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