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Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 2019

2019, 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, 2019 covers 120 countries on 3 measures. China is highest, at 2,665.689; Rwanda is lowest, at 0.737. The middle country reads 12.199. Against 2018, 120 values changed (53 up, 67 down), the same countries are covered.

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Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions · Data for 2019

HighestChina

2,665.689

LowestRwanda

0.737

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
ChinaCHNEastern Asia2,665.6892,923.994258.3053
United StatesUSANorthern America1,522.9471,429.015-93.9314
IndiaINDSouthern Asia618.803712.65793.8541
RussiaRUSEastern Europe351.071465.191114.1196
JapanJPNEastern Asia339.978300.781-39.1971
GermanyDEUWestern Europe231.005193.409-37.5964
South KoreaKOREastern Asia200.750176.338-24.4116
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia183.459193.3239.8639
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia181.280181.5090.2291
IranIRNSouthern Asia167.769198.49030.7212
MexicoMEXCentral America153.634127.794-25.8408
CanadaCANNorthern America149.875158.0268.1513
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe143.21399.551-43.6629
BrazilBRASouth America132.638130.110-2.5278
ItalyITASouthern Europe122.95692.696-30.2599
FranceFRAWestern Europe120.80986.332-34.4765
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia114.310110.963-3.3468
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand104.707113.2448.5367
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa100.295128.47428.1787
PolandPOLEastern Europe84.51386.6392.1259
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia82.88076.932-5.9480
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia78.39674.974-3.4222
SpainESPSouthern Europe77.53668.415-9.1206
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia75.11875.7840.6662
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa67.24163.881-3.3598

02In 2019

At either end

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

Highest

  1. China2,665.689
  2. United States1,522.947
  3. India618.803
  4. Russia351.071
  5. Japan339.978

Lowest

  1. Rwanda0.737
  2. Malawi0.740
  3. Burkina Faso1.390
  4. Madagascar1.572
  5. Albania1.643

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.199. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Territorial fossil CO₂ (million tonnes of carbon)

    HighestChina2,923.994

    LowestRwanda0.386

    Middle country: 11.031

  • Emissions transferred through trade (million tonnes of carbon)

    HighestChina258.3053

    LowestUnited States-93.9314

    Middle country: -1.4710

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 120values changed, of 120 in both
  • 53 · 67rose · 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 2019.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 120 countries has every column.

05The files

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Global Carbon Project (2019). Consumption-Based CO₂ Emissions, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/consumption-co2/2019

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