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Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 2016

2016, 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, 2016 covers 120 countries on 3 measures. China is highest, at 2,366.842; Panama is lowest, at -0.082. The middle country reads 12.062. Against 2015, 120 values changed (78 up, 42 down), the same countries are covered.

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Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions · Data for 2016

HighestChina

2,366.842

LowestPanama

-0.082

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
ChinaCHNEastern Asia2,366.8422,660.53293.6861
United StatesUSANorthern America1,516.8561,431.59-85.2615
IndiaINDSouthern Asia546.416642.0795.6523
JapanJPNEastern Asia361.029327.49-33.5367
RussiaRUSEastern Europe347.301444.6997.3843
GermanyDEUWestern Europe248.409217.79-30.6175
South KoreaKOREastern Asia182.701174.10-8.5982
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia174.647174.990.3462
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe159.049109.01-50.0342
MexicoMEXCentral America156.116130.68-25.4317
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia149.696149.55-0.1413
CanadaCANNorthern America149.218151.121.9025
IranIRNSouthern Asia145.068175.9530.8823
BrazilBRASouth America134.007134.210.2033
ItalyITASouthern Europe126.62097.74-28.8766
FranceFRAWestern Europe124.17491.57-32.6081
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia119.467110.69-8.7812
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand106.417111.815.3912
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa96.716124.7428.0247
PolandPOLEastern Europe83.11888.245.1189
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia77.88277.52-0.3587
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia76.64076.47-0.1674
SpainESPSouthern Europe75.24270.84-4.4029
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa74.07466.91-7.1625
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia70.68962.20-8.4899

02In 2016

At either end

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

Highest

  1. China2,366.842
  2. United States1,516.856
  3. India546.416
  4. Japan361.029
  5. Russia347.301

Lowest

  1. Panama-0.082
  2. Malawi0.264
  3. Rwanda0.299
  4. Togo0.621
  5. Burkina Faso1.085

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.062. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Territorial fossil CO₂ (million tonnes of carbon)

    HighestChina2,660.53

    LowestRwanda0.29

    Middle country: 10.81

  • Emissions transferred through trade (million tonnes of carbon)

    HighestChina293.6861

    LowestUnited States-85.2615

    Middle country: -0.9552

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 120values changed, of 120 in both
  • 78 · 42rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • United States1,553.910 → 1,516.856−37.055
  • China2,398.948 → 2,366.842−32.106
  • Brazil151.803 → 134.007−17.796
  • Iran160.306 → 145.068−15.238
  • Canada156.439 → 149.218−7.221

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 2016.

  • 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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Cite this edition

Global Carbon Project (2016). Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-co2/2016

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