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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2020

Figures for 2020, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2020 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 36.14544; DR Congo is lowest, at 0.04485. The middle country reads 2.90259. Against 2019, 210 values changed (51 up, 159 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2020

HighestQatar

36.14544

LowestDR Congo

0.04485

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia36.14544
2BahrainBHRWestern Asia25.23758
3BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia24.93740
4Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean23.66138
5United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia22.78305
6Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia21.08871
7KuwaitKWTWestern Asia20.47720
8New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia17.97891
9Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean15.90402
10OmanOMNWestern Asia15.88617
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand15.48128
12KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia14.46399
13Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe14.42273
14United StatesUSANorthern America13.81689
15CanadaCANNorthern America13.73282
16MongoliaMNGEastern Asia12.90802
17LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe12.79594
18PalauPLWMicronesia11.73831
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia11.52433
20TaiwanTWNEastern Asia11.51413
21RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.14906
22CuraçaoCUWCaribbean10.85231
23GreenlandGRLNorthern America9.79867
24AnguillaAIACaribbean9.13346
25IcelandISLNorthern Europe9.10741

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar36.14544
  2. 2Bahrain25.23758
  3. 3Brunei24.93740
  4. 4Trinidad and Tobago23.66138
  5. 5United Arab Emirates22.78305

Lowest

  1. 210DR Congo0.04485
  2. 209Burundi0.05861
  3. 208Central African Republic0.06633
  4. 207Somalia0.06843
  5. 206Malawi0.09563

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.90259. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 210values changed, of 210 in both
  • 51 · 159rose · 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 (2020). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2020

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2020?

Qatar, at 36.14544, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2020 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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