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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2017

Figures for 2017, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2017 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 39.03507; DR Congo is lowest, at 0.03353. The middle country reads 3.04911. Against 2016, 210 values changed (124 up, 86 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2017

HighestQatar

39.03507

LowestDR Congo

0.03353

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia39.03507
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean29.48316
3Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean27.88209
4KuwaitKWTWestern Asia24.07171
5BahrainBHRWestern Asia22.21099
6BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia21.51106
7United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia21.27852
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia20.93685
9New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia19.69262
10Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean18.04000
11KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia17.03418
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.71615
13United StatesUSANorthern America15.63921
14LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe15.50894
15CanadaCANNorthern America15.39482
16OmanOMNWestern Asia14.62154
17EstoniaESTNorthern Europe14.13062
18Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe14.00171
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia12.71285
20PalauPLWMicronesia12.13654
21TaiwanTWNEastern Asia12.09058
22RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.36226
23MongoliaMNGEastern Asia10.99710
24IcelandISLNorthern Europe10.51128
25CzechiaCZEEastern Europe10.22029

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar39.03507
  2. 2Curaçao29.48316
  3. 3Trinidad and Tobago27.88209
  4. 4Kuwait24.07171
  5. 5Bahrain22.21099

Lowest

  1. 210DR Congo0.03353
  2. 209Burundi0.04489
  3. 208Central African Republic0.05962
  4. 207Malawi0.06613
  5. 206Somalia0.06657

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.04911. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 210values changed, of 210 in both
  • 124 · 86rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

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 (2017). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2017

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2017?

Qatar, at 39.03507, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2017 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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