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Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 2015

2015, 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, 2015 covers 120 countries on 3 measures. China is highest, at 2,398.948; Malawi is lowest, at 0.194. The middle country reads 12.272. Against 2014, 120 values changed (62 up, 58 down), the same countries are covered.

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Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions · Data for 2015

HighestChina

2,398.948

LowestMalawi

0.194

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, 2015, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 120 countries · select a heading to sort

Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 2015: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
ChinaCHNEastern Asia2,398.9482,690.513291.565
United StatesUSANorthern America1,553.9101,465.201-88.709
IndiaINDSouthern Asia535.222609.12073.899
JapanJPNEastern Asia360.516332.965-27.552
RussiaRUSEastern Europe346.405446.30099.895
GermanyDEUWestern Europe245.501218.565-26.936
South KoreaKOREastern Asia184.573173.083-11.490
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia178.425170.455-7.970
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe162.937115.300-47.637
IranIRNSouthern Asia160.306175.20714.901
CanadaCANNorthern America156.439153.658-2.781
MexicoMEXCentral America156.210130.850-25.360
BrazilBRASouth America151.803144.152-7.651
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia148.862150.4261.564
ItalyITASouthern Europe125.75698.593-27.164
FranceFRAWestern Europe118.63990.647-27.992
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia117.938105.814-12.123
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand105.684109.3313.647
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa95.604124.85629.252
PolandPOLEastern Europe81.62585.3033.678
SpainESPSouthern Europe76.79573.758-3.038
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia74.85375.6270.774
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia72.54075.4002.860
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia71.35661.421-9.935
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa70.68361.860-8.823

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

  1. China2,398.948
  2. United States1,553.910
  3. India535.222
  4. Japan360.516
  5. Russia346.405

Lowest

  1. Malawi0.194
  2. Rwanda0.288
  3. Togo0.489
  4. Guinea0.571
  5. Burkina Faso0.960

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.272. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Territorial fossil CO₂ (million tonnes of carbon)

    HighestChina2,690.513

    LowestRwanda0.264

    Middle country: 10.924

  • Emissions transferred through trade (million tonnes of carbon)

    HighestChina291.565

    LowestUnited States-88.709

    Middle country: -0.981

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 120values changed, of 120 in both
  • 62 · 58rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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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 2015.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 120 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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Global Carbon Project (2015). Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-co2/2015

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