Countries by CO₂ emissions per person

Countries by CO₂ emissions per person, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	t per person	Region
1	Palau	82.8	Micronesia
2	Qatar	47.3	Western Asia
3	Bahrain	23.9	Western Asia
4	Kuwait	23.7	Western Asia
5	Brunei	20.2	South-Eastern Asia
6	Trinidad and Tobago	19.6	Caribbean
7	Oman	18.6	Western Asia
8	Saudi Arabia	18.5	Western Asia
9	United Arab Emirates	18.3	Western Asia
10	Australia	14.1	Australia and New Zealand
11	Canada	14.0	Northern America
12	Russia	14.0	Eastern Europe
13	United States	13.6	Northern America
14	Kazakhstan	12.6	Central Asia
15	South Korea	11.4	Eastern Asia
16	Turkmenistan	10.9	Central Asia
17	Luxembourg	10.6	Western Europe
18	Singapore	9.75	South-Eastern Asia
19	China	9.32	Eastern Asia
20	Iran	9.05	Southern Asia
21	Libya	8.66	Northern Africa
22	Iceland	8.52	Northern Europe
23	Malaysia	8.32	South-Eastern Asia
24	Mongolia	7.85	Eastern Asia
25	Japan	7.84	Eastern Asia
26	Estonia	7.76	Northern Europe
27	Poland	7.55	Eastern Europe
28	Belgium	7.31	Western Europe
29	Seychelles	7.24	Eastern Africa
30	Norway	7.18	Northern Europe
31	Czechia	7.13	Eastern Europe
32	Germany	6.94	Western Europe
33	South Africa	6.88	Southern Africa
34	Netherlands	6.60	Western Europe
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.45	Southern Europe
36	Austria	6.32	Western Europe
37	Slovenia	6.27	Southern Europe
38	Ireland	6.04	Northern Europe
39	New Zealand	6.01	Australia and New Zealand
40	Belarus	5.94	Eastern Europe
41	Israel	5.77	Western Asia
42	Finland	5.54	Northern Europe
43	Slovakia	5.51	Eastern Europe
44	Cyprus	5.40	Western Asia
45	Turkey	5.38	Western Asia
46	Bulgaria	5.31	Eastern Europe
47	Iraq	5.18	Western Asia
48	Italy	5.08	Southern Europe
49	Greece	5.05	Southern Europe
50	Croatia	4.83	Southern Europe
51	Guyana	4.56	South America
52	Spain	4.51	Southern Europe
53	Lithuania	4.49	Northern Europe
54	Hungary	4.46	Eastern Europe
55	Denmark	4.28	Northern Europe
56	Vietnam	4.27	South-Eastern Asia
57	United Kingdom	4.22	Northern Europe
58	Uzbekistan	4.09	Central Asia
59	Suriname	4.06	South America
60	Argentina	4.01	South America
=61	France	4.00	Western Europe
=61	North Macedonia	4.00	Southern Europe
63	Algeria	3.98	Northern Africa
64	Thailand	3.96	South-Eastern Asia
65	Chile	3.94	South America
66	Azerbaijan	3.81	Western Asia
67	Antigua and Barbuda	3.80	Caribbean
68	Switzerland	3.75	Western Europe
69	Romania	3.72	Eastern Europe
70	Latvia	3.65	Northern Europe
=71	Bahamas	3.64	Caribbean
=71	Mexico	3.64	Central America
=73	Maldives	3.57	Southern Asia
=73	Sweden	3.57	Northern Europe
75	Mauritius	3.54	Eastern Africa
76	Georgia	3.53	Western Asia
77	Moldova	3.42	Eastern Europe
78	Venezuela	3.39	South America
79	Laos	3.35	South-Eastern Asia
80	Portugal	3.32	Southern Europe
81	Malta	3.18	Southern Europe
82	Ukraine	3.13	Eastern Europe
83	Dominican Republic	2.99	Caribbean
84	Saint Kitts and Nevis	2.88	Caribbean
85	Indonesia	2.87	South-Eastern Asia
86	Jamaica	2.84	Caribbean
=87	Botswana	2.74	Southern Africa
=87	Panama	2.74	Central America
89	Ecuador	2.64	South America
90	Tunisia	2.62	Northern Africa
91	Uruguay	2.57	South America
92	Equatorial Guinea	2.55	Middle Africa
93	Barbados	2.52	Caribbean
=94	Egypt	2.50	Northern Africa
=94	North Korea	2.50	Eastern Asia
96	Armenia	2.47	Western Asia
97	Brazil	2.32	South America
98	Bolivia	2.29	South America
99	India	2.17	Southern Asia
100	Jordan	2.09	Western Asia
101	Gabon	2.05	Middle Africa
102	Peru	2.02	South America
103	Bhutan	2.01	Southern Asia
104	Cuba	1.91	Caribbean
105	Lebanon	1.90	Western Asia
106	Morocco	1.84	Northern Africa
107	Colombia	1.80	South America
108	Albania	1.79	Southern Europe
109	Saint Lucia	1.71	Caribbean
=110	Costa Rica	1.63	Central America
=110	Tonga	1.63	Polynesia
112	Fiji	1.62	Melanesia
113	Samoa	1.60	Polynesia
114	El Salvador	1.51	Central America
=115	Grenada	1.50	Caribbean
=115	Philippines	1.50	South-Eastern Asia
117	Kyrgyzstan	1.49	Central Asia
118	Congo	1.34	Middle Africa
119	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.31	Caribbean
120	Cabo Verde	1.29	Western Africa
=121	Dominica	1.27	Caribbean
=121	Syria	1.27	Western Asia
123	Namibia	1.20	Southern Africa
124	Paraguay	1.16	South America
125	Honduras	1.14	Central America
126	Guatemala	1.11	Central America
127	Cambodia	1.10	South-Eastern Asia
128	Sri Lanka	1.06	Southern Asia
129	Mauritania	0.97	Western Africa
130	Belize	0.93	Central America
131	Tajikistan	0.92	Central Asia
132	Eswatini	0.88	Southern Africa
133	Vanuatu	0.87	Melanesia
134	Nicaragua	0.83	Central America
135	Pakistan	0.81	Southern Asia
=136	Djibouti	0.77	Eastern Africa
=136	Senegal	0.77	Western Africa
=136	Zimbabwe	0.77	Eastern Africa
139	Angola	0.74	Middle Africa
140	Bangladesh	0.72	Southern Asia
141	Ghana	0.70	Western Africa
142	São Tomé and Principe	0.63	Middle Africa
=143	Côte d'Ivoire	0.59	Western Africa
=143	Kiribati	0.59	Micronesia
145	Myanmar	0.58	South-Eastern Asia
146	Nigeria	0.57	Western Africa
=147	Nepal	0.54	Southern Asia
=147	Zambia	0.54	Eastern Africa
149	Papua New Guinea	0.52	Melanesia
150	Comoros	0.51	Eastern Africa
151	Timor-Leste	0.50	South-Eastern Asia
152	Benin	0.49	Western Africa
=153	Lesotho	0.43	Southern Africa
=153	Sudan	0.43	Northern Africa
=155	Kenya	0.38	Eastern Africa
=155	Solomon Islands	0.38	Melanesia
=157	Cameroon	0.35	Middle Africa
=157	Guinea	0.35	Western Africa
=159	Tanzania	0.31	Eastern Africa
=159	Togo	0.31	Western Africa
=161	Haiti	0.30	Caribbean
=161	Mali	0.30	Western Africa
163	Mozambique	0.29	Eastern Africa
164	Afghanistan	0.28	Southern Asia
165	Burkina Faso	0.27	Western Africa
166	Yemen	0.26	Western Asia
=167	Eritrea	0.22	Eastern Africa
=167	Malawi	0.22	Eastern Africa
169	Gambia	0.18	Western Africa
=170	Sierra Leone	0.17	Western Africa
=170	Uganda	0.17	Eastern Africa
=172	Guinea-Bissau	0.16	Western Africa
=172	Rwanda	0.16	Eastern Africa
=174	Ethiopia	0.15	Eastern Africa
=174	Liberia	0.15	Western Africa
=174	Madagascar	0.15	Eastern Africa
177	Chad	0.14	Middle Africa
178	Niger	0.12	Western Africa
179	Burundi	0.07	Eastern Africa
=180	Central African Republic	0.06	Middle Africa
=180	DR Congo	0.06	Middle Africa
182	Somalia	0.05	Eastern Africa
=183	Marshall Islands	0.00	Micronesia
=183	Micronesia	0.00	Micronesia
=183	Nauru	0.00	Micronesia

No World Bank figure for 9 countries: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, South Sudan, Taiwan, Vatican City.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed, and Antarctica. Highest first.

Place	t per person	Status
New Caledonia	17.1	Territory of France
Greenland	10.4	Territory of Denmark
Aruba	5.15	Territory of Netherlands
Cayman Islands	5.00	Territory of United Kingdom
Turks and Caicos Islands	4.92	Territory of United Kingdom
Puerto Rico	4.82	Territory of United States of America
Hong Kong	4.60	Territory of China
Bermuda	4.14	Territory of United Kingdom
French Polynesia	3.46	Territory of France
Macao	2.53	Territory of China
British Virgin Islands	2.33	Territory of United Kingdom
Faroe Islands	0.04	Territory of Denmark
American Samoa	0.00	Territory of United States of America
Guam	0.00	Territory of United States of America
Northern Mariana Islands	0.00	Territory of United States of America
US Virgin Islands	0.00	Territory of United States of America

Questions

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person?

Palau has the highest CO₂ emissions per person: 82.8 tonnes a person (2024). Next come Qatar (47.3 tonnes a person) and Bahrain (23.9 tonnes a person).

Which country has the lowest CO₂ emissions per person?

Nauru, with 0.00 tonnes a person (2024).

What is the typical co₂ per person of a country?

The median of the 185 countries is 2.52 tonnes a person: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

Carbon dioxide emitted in a year, divided by the population: fossil fuels and industry, without land use change and forestry. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.