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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1982

Figures for 1982, 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, 1982 covers 197 countries. Sint Maarten is highest, at 71.13240; Nepal is lowest, at 0.02714. The middle country reads 1.95285. Against 1981, 197 values changed (84 up, 113 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1982

HighestSint Maarten

71.13240

LowestNepal

0.02714

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, 1982, 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, 1982: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean71.13240
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean59.51785
3QatarQATWestern Asia39.61510
4United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia31.56603
5BahrainBHRWestern Asia25.40296
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe24.46612
7EstoniaESTNorthern Europe23.53728
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia23.13349
9United StatesUSANorthern America18.38120
10CzechiaCZEEastern Europe17.56252
11CanadaCANNorthern America16.48577
12Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean16.03297
13NauruNRUMicronesia15.49453
14RussiaRUSEastern Europe15.18163
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia14.82916
16AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand14.34926
17BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia13.44703
18UkraineUKREastern Europe13.36851
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe12.95385
20KuwaitKWTWestern Asia12.71330
21BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.87440
22PolandPOLEastern Europe11.61848
23SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe11.46461
24SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia10.80206
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe10.54779

02In 1982

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sint Maarten71.13240
  2. 2Curaçao59.51785
  3. 3Qatar39.61510
  4. 4United Arab Emirates31.56603
  5. 5Bahrain25.40296

Lowest

  1. 197Nepal0.02714
  2. 196Burundi0.03366
  3. 195Uganda0.03926
  4. 194Ethiopia0.04016
  5. 193Chad0.04330

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.95285. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031981 → 1982

Since 1981

What changed between 1981 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 197values changed, of 197 in both
  • 84 · 113rose · 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 (1982). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1982

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