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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1996

Figures for 1996, 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, 1996 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 65.1630; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 2.2339. Against 1995, 208 values changed (139 up, 69 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1996

HighestQatar

65.1630

Lowest2 countries share it

0.0000

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, 1996, 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 210 countries · select a heading to sort

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1996: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia65.1630
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia29.9196
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia29.1951
4CuraçaoCUWCaribbean28.5170
5BahrainBHRWestern Asia26.1950
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe22.1997
7United StatesUSANorthern America20.6789
8BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia19.9900
9Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia19.4851
10CanadaCANNorthern America17.0582
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand17.0361
12Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean15.2259
13DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14.2312
14Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean14.1812
15Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe13.5191
16EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.2666
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe13.1136
18SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia13.1020
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.7502
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.4963
21NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.6715
22GermanyDEUWestern Europe11.6661
23PalauPLWMicronesia11.2074
24LibyaLBYNorthern Africa10.8177
25RussiaRUSEastern Europe10.7144

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar65.1630
  2. 2Kuwait29.9196
  3. 3United Arab Emirates29.1951
  4. 4Curaçao28.5170
  5. 5Bahrain26.1950

Lowest

  1. 209Kosovoshared0.0000
  2. 209Timor-Lesteshared0.0000
  3. 208Burundi0.0398
  4. 207Ethiopia0.0470
  5. 206Uganda0.0480

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.2339. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 208values changed, of 210 in both
  • 139 · 69rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

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

  • 209 distinct values among 210

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 6 decimals. 2 countries share 0.0000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    Global Carbon Project publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 210 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 (1996). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1996

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