Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: consumption-co2-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	120	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	120	0
Consumption-based fossil CO₂ (million tonnes of carbon)consumption_co2Headline	The headline figure: Consumption-based fossil CO₂ (million tonnes of carbon).	Number · up to 15 decimals	0.882Malawi2,963.162Chinamiddle 12.789	120	0
Territorial fossil CO₂ (million tonnes of carbon)territorial_co2Measure	Fossil CO₂ emitted within the country's own borders, the conventional national figure, in million tonnes of carbon.	Number · up to 15 decimals	0.483Malta3,322.055Chinamiddle 9.557	120	0
Emissions transferred through trade (million tonnes of carbon)emissions_transferMeasure	Territorial minus consumption emissions, in million tonnes of carbon: positive means the country emits more making its exports than its imports carry, negative that it imports emissions through trade.	Number · up to 16 decimals	-140.0798United States358.8931Chinamiddle -1.4755	120	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 34 years.

Not in this dataset · 105 places this site covers

Global Carbon Project gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosBelizeBermudaBhutanBosnia and HerzegovinaBritish Virgin IslandsBurundiCabo VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaDR CongoEquatorial GuineaEritreaEswatiniFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGabonGambiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiIcelandIraqIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLebanonLesothoLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMaldivesMaliMarshall IslandsMauritaniaMicronesiaMoldovaMonacoMontenegroMontserratMyanmarNauruNew CaledoniaNigerNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePapua New GuineaPuerto RicoRepublic of the CongoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSão Tomé and PríncipeSerbiaSeychellesSierra LeoneSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSurinameSyriaTimor-LesteTongaTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsUzbekistanVanuatuVatican CityYemen

1. 1 · Publisher

   Global Carbon Project

   globalcarbonbudget.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions 2023

   Read from the publisher’s own service.

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   34 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as consumption-co2-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/consumption-co2

From the Global Carbon Project's own national emissions workbook. The consumption figures come from a trade model that covers only the countries in its trade tables, so most small economies are absent.

• Charted

  Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

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