Countries in Asia by co₂ per person

Countries in Asia by co₂ per person, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	t per person	Region
1	Qatar	47.3	Western Asia
2	Bahrain	23.9	Western Asia
3	Kuwait	23.7	Western Asia
4	Brunei	20.2	South-Eastern Asia
5	Oman	18.6	Western Asia
6	Saudi Arabia	18.5	Western Asia
7	United Arab Emirates	18.3	Western Asia
8	Kazakhstan	12.6	Central Asia
9	South Korea	11.4	Eastern Asia
10	Turkmenistan	10.9	Central Asia
11	Singapore	9.75	South-Eastern Asia
12	China	9.32	Eastern Asia
13	Iran	9.05	Southern Asia
14	Malaysia	8.32	South-Eastern Asia
15	Mongolia	7.85	Eastern Asia
16	Japan	7.84	Eastern Asia
17	Israel	5.77	Western Asia
18	Cyprus	5.40	Western Asia
19	Turkey	5.38	Western Asia
20	Iraq	5.18	Western Asia
21	Vietnam	4.27	South-Eastern Asia
22	Uzbekistan	4.09	Central Asia
23	Thailand	3.96	South-Eastern Asia
24	Azerbaijan	3.81	Western Asia
25	Maldives	3.57	Southern Asia
26	Georgia	3.53	Western Asia
27	Laos	3.35	South-Eastern Asia
28	Indonesia	2.87	South-Eastern Asia
29	North Korea	2.50	Eastern Asia
30	Armenia	2.47	Western Asia
31	India	2.17	Southern Asia
32	Jordan	2.09	Western Asia
33	Bhutan	2.01	Southern Asia
34	Lebanon	1.90	Western Asia
35	Philippines	1.50	South-Eastern Asia
36	Kyrgyzstan	1.49	Central Asia
37	Syria	1.27	Western Asia
38	Cambodia	1.10	South-Eastern Asia
39	Sri Lanka	1.06	Southern Asia
40	Tajikistan	0.92	Central Asia
41	Pakistan	0.81	Southern Asia
42	Bangladesh	0.72	Southern Asia
43	Myanmar	0.58	South-Eastern Asia
44	Nepal	0.54	Southern Asia
45	Timor-Leste	0.50	South-Eastern Asia
46	Afghanistan	0.28	Southern Asia
47	Yemen	0.26	Western Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

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

Place	t per person	Status
Hong Kong	4.60	Territory of China
Macao	2.53	Territory of China

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest CO₂ emissions per person?

Qatar has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in Asia: 47.3 tonnes a person (2024). Next come Bahrain (23.9 tonnes a person) and Kuwait (23.7 tonnes a person).

Which country in Asia has the lowest CO₂ emissions per person?

Yemen, with 0.26 tonnes a person (2024).

What is the typical co₂ per person of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 3.81 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. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

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.