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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2012

Figures for 2012, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2012 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 49.1517; DR Congo is lowest, at 0.0382. The middle country reads 2.7698. Against 2011, 209 values changed (105 up, 104 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2012

HighestQatar

49.1517

LowestDR Congo

0.0382

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, 2012, 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, 2012: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia49.1517
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean39.0790
3Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean32.8813
4KuwaitKWTWestern Asia30.3266
5United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia27.7872
6BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia23.4242
7Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia22.3820
8BahrainBHRWestern Asia22.3649
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe20.4502
10Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean19.9818
11OmanOMNWestern Asia17.7905
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand17.7225
13United StatesUSANorthern America16.8124
14CanadaCANNorthern America16.0862
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia14.1720
16New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia13.6418
17EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.4290
18ArubaABWCaribbean13.2139
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia12.6602
20PalauPLWMicronesia12.5811
21MongoliaMNGEastern Asia12.5189
22Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe12.3426
23RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.7825
24TaiwanTWNEastern Asia11.7058
25TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia11.5242

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar49.1517
  2. 2Curaçao39.0790
  3. 3Trinidad and Tobago32.8813
  4. 4Kuwait30.3266
  5. 5United Arab Emirates27.7872

Lowest

  1. 210DR Congo0.0382
  2. 209Burundi0.0389
  3. 208Central African Republic0.0397
  4. 207Malawi0.0662
  5. 206Rwanda0.0663

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.7698. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 209values changed, of 210 in both
  • 105 · 104rose · 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 (2012). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2012

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2012?

Qatar, at 49.1517, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2012 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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