Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1978

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978

Figures for 1978, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978 covers 197 countries. Sint Maarten is highest, at 81.8681; Cambodia is lowest, at 0.0091. The middle country reads 1.9592. Against 1977, 197 values changed (128 up, 69 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1978

HighestSint Maarten

81.8681

LowestCambodia

0.0091

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, 1978, 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 197 countries · select a heading to sort

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean81.8681
2United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia55.3201
3BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia54.5146
4CuraçaoCUWCaribbean51.9634
5QatarQATWestern Asia43.5121
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe32.9169
7BahamasBHSCaribbean29.4807
8BahrainBHRWestern Asia23.6563
9EstoniaESTNorthern Europe23.0386
10United StatesUSANorthern America21.7277
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia21.3719
12CzechiaCZEEastern Europe18.3794
13CanadaCANNorthern America17.3292
14KuwaitKWTWestern Asia15.6525
15NauruNRUMicronesia15.5637
16KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia14.9537
17RussiaRUSEastern Europe14.8406
18Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean14.0039
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe13.8330
20GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.8138
21SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia13.7520
22AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand13.2979
23UkraineUKREastern Europe12.9930
24PolandPOLEastern Europe12.3340
25SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.2788

02In 1978

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sint Maarten81.8681
  2. 2United Arab Emirates55.3201
  3. 3Brunei54.5146
  4. 4Curaçao51.9634
  5. 5Qatar43.5121

Lowest

  1. 197Cambodia0.0091
  2. 196Nepal0.0222
  3. 195Burundi0.0250
  4. 194Bhutan0.0271
  5. 193Ethiopia0.0406

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.9592. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031977 → 1978

Since 1977

What changed between 1977 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 197values changed, of 197 in both
  • 128 · 69rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 197 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 (1978). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1978

0675 held

Other years

07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978?

Sint Maarten, at 81.8681, of the 197 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978 cover?

197.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1978?

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, 1978 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.