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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2022

Figures for 2022, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2022 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 37.8898; DR Congo is lowest, at 0.0575. The middle country reads 3.1623. Against 2021, 210 values changed (127 up, 83 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2022

HighestQatar

37.8898

LowestDR Congo

0.0575

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, 2022, 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, 2022: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia37.8898
2BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia26.8727
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia25.2421
4Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean25.0634
5BahrainBHRWestern Asia24.6677
6Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia20.7300
7United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia20.2208
8New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia17.8167
9OmanOMNWestern Asia16.4884
10Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean16.4336
11United StatesUSANorthern America14.8020
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand14.6589
13TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia14.1162
14CanadaCANNorthern America14.1072
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia13.6936
16Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe13.3847
17PalauPLWMicronesia12.2324
18MongoliaMNGEastern Asia11.9442
19CuraçaoCUWCaribbean11.9204
20South KoreaKOREastern Asia11.7197
21TaiwanTWNEastern Asia11.6989
22RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.5089
23LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe11.1346
24GreenlandGRLNorthern America10.4876
25AnguillaAIACaribbean10.0773

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar37.8898
  2. 2Brunei26.8727
  3. 3Kuwait25.2421
  4. 4Trinidad and Tobago25.0634
  5. 5Bahrain24.6677

Lowest

  1. 210DR Congo0.0575
  2. 209Burundi0.0659
  3. 208Somalia0.0714
  4. 207Central African Republic0.0740
  5. 206Malawi0.0876

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.1623. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 210values changed, of 210 in both
  • 127 · 83rose · 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 (2022). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2022

0675 held

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2022?

Qatar, at 37.8898, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2022 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2022?

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, 2022 the newest?

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

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