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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2008

Figures for 2008, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2008 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 43.3592; Burundi is lowest, at 0.0237. The middle country reads 2.9788. Against 2007, 210 values changed (103 up, 107 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2008

HighestQatar

43.3592

LowestBurundi

0.0237

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, 2008, 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, 2008: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia43.3592
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean36.9776
3Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean32.3905
4KuwaitKWTWestern Asia31.8480
5ArubaABWCaribbean27.1602
6BahrainBHRWestern Asia26.3444
7United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia24.5976
8BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia24.2608
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe22.8364
10Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia20.1577
11United StatesUSANorthern America19.4092
12Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean19.2193
13AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand18.9176
14OmanOMNWestern Asia18.0602
15CanadaCANNorthern America17.1668
16KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia13.7645
17EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.3237
18Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe13.0701
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.0042
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe11.8447
21TaiwanTWNEastern Asia11.5642
22GreenlandGRLNorthern America11.5353
23RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.4923
24BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.2239
25New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia11.2202

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar43.3592
  2. 2Curaçao36.9776
  3. 3Trinidad and Tobago32.3905
  4. 4Kuwait31.8480
  5. 5Aruba27.1602

Lowest

  1. 210Burundi0.0237
  2. 209Central African Republic0.0330
  3. 208DR Congo0.0417
  4. 207Niger0.0516
  5. 206Rwanda0.0542

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.9788. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 210values changed, of 210 in both
  • 103 · 107rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Qatar49.2554 → 43.3592−5.8962
  • Palau13.0979 → 10.7940−2.3039
  • Aruba29.2097 → 27.1602−2.0496
  • Curaçao38.7216 → 36.9776−1.7440
  • Finland12.6239 → 11.0335−1.5904

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 (2008). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2008

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2008?

Qatar, at 43.3592, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2008 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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