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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1999

Figures for 1999, 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, 1999 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 59.3055; Kosovo is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 2.4515. Against 1998, 209 values changed (110 up, 99 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1999

HighestQatar

59.3055

LowestKosovo

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, 1999, 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, 1999: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia59.3055
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia28.9918
3BahrainBHRWestern Asia27.8852
4United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia23.8346
5United StatesUSANorthern America20.8055
6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe18.8867
7BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia18.7159
8AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand18.1849
9CanadaCANNorthern America17.7735
10Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean17.1752
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia15.3642
12Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe14.0191
13CuraçaoCUWCaribbean12.7053
14SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia12.4038
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.1954
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe11.3975
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe11.3808
18EstoniaESTNorthern Europe11.3492
19IrelandIRLNorthern Europe11.3086
20DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11.0212
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe10.9630
22NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe10.7309
23PalauPLWMicronesia10.6619
24GreenlandGRLNorthern America10.5844
25IcelandISLNorthern Europe10.2396

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar59.3055
  2. 2Kuwait28.9918
  3. 3Bahrain27.8852
  4. 4United Arab Emirates23.8346
  5. 5United States20.8055

Lowest

  1. 210Kosovo0.0000
  2. 209Burundi0.0399
  3. 208Sierra Leone0.0407
  4. 207DR Congo0.0450
  5. 206Ethiopia0.0473

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.4515. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 209values changed, of 210 in both
  • 110 · 99rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 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 (1999). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1999

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