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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1990

Figures for 1990, 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, 1990 covers 203 countries. Luxembourg is highest, at 30.93835; Nepal is lowest, at 0.03695. The middle country reads 2.56703. Against 1989, 197 values changed (97 up, 100 down), 6 countries joined.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1990

HighestLuxembourg

30.93835

LowestNepal

0.03695

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, 1990, 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 203 countries · select a heading to sort

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1990: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe30.93835
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean30.81479
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia27.34559
4QatarQATWestern Asia25.96221
5EstoniaESTNorthern Europe23.50259
6KuwaitKWTWestern Asia22.47328
7BahrainBHRWestern Asia22.32719
8United StatesUSANorthern America20.25375
9BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia19.61945
10Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean19.03573
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia17.10144
12RussiaRUSEastern Europe17.02438
13CanadaCANNorthern America16.48172
14AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.23591
15CzechiaCZEEastern Europe15.94375
16KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia15.58846
17Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe14.81121
18SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia14.32284
19UkraineUKREastern Europe13.57291
20Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean13.55880
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.23326
22NauruNRUMicronesia12.94700
23BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.08069
24SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe11.68394
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe11.41485

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Luxembourg30.93835
  2. 2Curaçao30.81479
  3. 3United Arab Emirates27.34559
  4. 4Qatar25.96221
  5. 5Estonia23.50259

Lowest

  1. 203Nepal0.03695
  2. 202Burundi0.03738
  3. 201Uganda0.04330
  4. 200Mali0.04600
  5. 199Ethiopia0.06273

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.56703. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +6 / −0countries joined / left
  • 197values changed, of 197 in both
  • 97 · 100rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Qatar33.61946 → 25.96221−7.65725
  • Brunei25.56753 → 19.61945−5.94808
  • Bermuda13.66087 → 8.72093−4.93994
  • North Korea10.05810 → 5.60732−4.45078
  • Nauru16.77870 → 12.94700−3.83171
+ Anguilla+ Andorra+ Lesotho+ Palestine+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Tuvalu

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 203 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 (1990). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1990

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