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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1987

Figures for 1987, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1987 covers 197 countries. United Arab Emirates is highest, at 30.24042; Chad is lowest, at 0.03638. The middle country reads 2.43320. Against 1986, 197 values changed (113 up, 84 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1987

HighestUnited Arab Emirates

30.24042

LowestChad

0.03638

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, 1987, 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, 1987: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia30.24042
2QatarQATWestern Asia28.93068
3BahrainBHRWestern Asia24.67449
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe24.50003
5LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe23.76646
6Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia20.85545
7United StatesUSANorthern America19.06039
8CzechiaCZEEastern Europe17.82683
9NauruNRUMicronesia17.61145
10CanadaCANNorthern America16.23840
11RussiaRUSEastern Europe16.13984
12KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia15.53058
13KuwaitKWTWestern Asia15.30871
14CuraçaoCUWCaribbean15.27588
15AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand14.37290
16Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean14.36502
17UkraineUKREastern Europe14.25038
18BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia14.17908
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.22363
20PolandPOLEastern Europe12.31190
21Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean11.76098
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe11.66473
23SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia11.43611
24DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11.36033
25SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe11.31144

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United Arab Emirates30.24042
  2. 2Qatar28.93068
  3. 3Bahrain24.67449
  4. 4Estonia24.50003
  5. 5Luxembourg23.76646

Lowest

  1. 197Chad0.03638
  2. 196Mali0.04118
  3. 195Nepal0.04716
  4. 194Burundi0.04748
  5. 193Uganda0.04840

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.43320. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 197values changed, of 197 in both
  • 113 · 84rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Aruba2.82196 → 7.04971+4.22775
  • Brunei10.14295 → 14.17908+4.03613
  • Bermuda7.53923 → 10.15878+2.61955
  • Mauritania0.21334 → 1.79846+1.58512
  • Malta4.17915 → 5.17757+0.99842

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 (1987). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1987

0675 held

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1987?

United Arab Emirates, at 30.24042, of the 197 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1987 cover?

197.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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