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Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 1990

1990, as Global Carbon Project’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This counts the carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and cement that goes into everything a country consumes, wherever in the world it was emitted. The steel, electronics and clothes a country imports carry the emissions of the factories that made them, so this is the fairer reading for a country that buys its manufactured goods abroad.

Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 1990 covers 119 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 1,378.641; Namibia is lowest, at 0.000. The middle country reads 7.413.

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Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions · Data for 1990

HighestUnited States

1,378.641

LowestNamibia

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 1990, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 119 countries · select a heading to sort

Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 1990: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
United StatesUSANorthern America1,378.6411,400.59021.9489
ChinaCHNEastern Asia644.315677.82133.5053
RussiaRUSEastern Europe557.597692.217134.6199
JapanJPNEastern Asia371.848315.189-56.6588
GermanyDEUWestern Europe327.521287.881-39.6399
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe181.770164.286-17.4841
IndiaINDSouthern Asia159.212157.747-1.4646
ItalyITASouthern Europe152.630119.598-33.0313
UkraineUKREastern Europe140.815192.82952.0141
CanadaCANNorthern America135.693125.005-10.6881
FranceFRAWestern Europe132.470107.780-24.6903
South KoreaKOREastern Asia90.33468.371-21.9636
MexicoMEXCentral America88.82886.448-2.3802
PolandPOLEastern Europe88.559102.71314.1543
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa85.40885.4080.0000
SpainESPSouthern Europe73.94362.604-11.3389
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia67.63772.9825.3448
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand66.78075.8909.1103
BrazilBRASouth America65.14359.677-5.4653
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia57.21542.187-15.0281
IranIRNSouthern Asia55.42457.6082.1832
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe47.64344.496-3.1476
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia47.26449.6652.4006
RomaniaROUEastern Europe43.87548.1814.3056
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe41.33144.8293.4976

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. United States1,378.641
  2. China644.315
  3. Russia557.597
  4. Japan371.848
  5. Germany327.521

Lowest

  1. Namibia0.000
  2. Rwanda0.172
  3. Malawi0.190
  4. Burkina Faso0.225
  5. Laos0.232

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.413. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Territorial fossil CO₂ (million tonnes of carbon)

    HighestUnited States1,400.590

    LowestLaos0.140

    Middle country: 6.601

  • Emissions transferred through trade (million tonnes of carbon)

    HighestRussia134.6199

    LowestJapan-56.6588

    Middle country: -0.1367

03Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from Global Carbon Project’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1990.

  • 1 empty cell

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

04The files

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Global Carbon Project (1990). Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-co2/1990

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