Countries in Europe by co₂ per person

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

#	Country	t per person	Region
1	Russia	14.0	Eastern Europe
2	Luxembourg	10.6	Western Europe
3	Iceland	8.52	Northern Europe
4	Estonia	7.76	Northern Europe
5	Poland	7.55	Eastern Europe
6	Belgium	7.31	Western Europe
7	Norway	7.18	Northern Europe
8	Czechia	7.13	Eastern Europe
9	Germany	6.94	Western Europe
10	Netherlands	6.60	Western Europe
11	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.45	Southern Europe
12	Austria	6.32	Western Europe
13	Slovenia	6.27	Southern Europe
14	Ireland	6.04	Northern Europe
15	Belarus	5.94	Eastern Europe
16	Finland	5.54	Northern Europe
17	Slovakia	5.51	Eastern Europe
18	Bulgaria	5.31	Eastern Europe
19	Italy	5.08	Southern Europe
20	Greece	5.05	Southern Europe
21	Croatia	4.83	Southern Europe
22	Spain	4.51	Southern Europe
23	Lithuania	4.49	Northern Europe
24	Hungary	4.46	Eastern Europe
25	Denmark	4.28	Northern Europe
26	United Kingdom	4.22	Northern Europe
=27	France	4.00	Western Europe
=27	North Macedonia	4.00	Southern Europe
29	Switzerland	3.75	Western Europe
30	Romania	3.72	Eastern Europe
31	Latvia	3.65	Northern Europe
32	Sweden	3.57	Northern Europe
33	Moldova	3.42	Eastern Europe
34	Portugal	3.32	Southern Europe
35	Malta	3.18	Southern Europe
36	Ukraine	3.13	Eastern Europe
37	Albania	1.79	Southern Europe

No World Bank figure for 7 countries: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Vatican City.

Territories and other places

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

Place	t per person	Status
Faroe Islands	0.04	Territory of Denmark

Questions

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

Russia has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in Europe: 14.0 tonnes a person (2024). Next come Luxembourg (10.6 tonnes a person) and Iceland (8.52 tonnes a person).

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

Albania, with 1.79 tonnes a person (2024).

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

The median of the 37 countries in Europe is 5.08 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.