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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1965

Figures for 1965, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

This is how much carbon dioxide a country emits from burning fossil fuels and making cement, divided by how many people live there. The Global Carbon Project has compiled it every year since the 1950s and it is the number most climate comparisons rest on.

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1965 covers 192 countries. Sint Maarten is highest, at 230.55411; Burundi is lowest, at 0.01166. The middle country reads 0.97076. Against 1964, 192 values changed (128 up, 64 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1965

HighestSint Maarten

230.55411

LowestBurundi

0.01166

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, 1965, 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 192 countries · select a heading to sort

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1965: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean230.55411
2QatarQATWestern Asia98.14133
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia67.90549
4CuraçaoCUWCaribbean62.25845
5LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe37.01482
6United StatesUSANorthern America17.37528
7EstoniaESTNorthern Europe14.80702
8New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia13.21508
9CanadaCANNorthern America12.79708
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe12.63499
11CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.59215
12KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia11.48612
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.44456
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.20597
15ArubaABWCaribbean10.18022
16AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand10.00278
17DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe9.30992
18RussiaRUSEastern Europe9.15328
19SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe8.94972
20GreenlandGRLNorthern America8.93288
21BahamasBHSCaribbean8.89056
22TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia8.32100
23NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8.16304
24UkraineUKREastern Europe8.09149
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe8.09074

02In 1965

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sint Maarten230.55411
  2. 2Qatar98.14133
  3. 3Kuwait67.90549
  4. 4Curaçao62.25845
  5. 5Luxembourg37.01482

Lowest

  1. 192Burundi0.01166
  2. 191Rwanda0.01391
  3. 190Nepal0.01607
  4. 189Burkina Faso0.01991
  5. 188Niger0.02262

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.97076. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031964 → 1965

Since 1964

What changed between 1964 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 192values changed, of 192 in both
  • 128 · 64rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Sint Maarten280.56371 → 230.55411−50.00960
  • Qatar110.24151 → 98.14133−12.10019
  • Curaçao70.34836 → 62.25845−8.08990
  • Bahrain8.24237 → 6.11074−2.13163
  • Aruba11.45933 → 10.18022−1.27911

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 192 countries has every column.

05The files

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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.

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Cite this edition

Global Carbon Project (1965). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1965 [data set], describing 1965. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1965

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