Which country in North America has the highest CO₂ emissions per person?

Trinidad and Tobago has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in North America: 19.6 tonnes a person (2024). Next come Canada (14.0 tonnes a person) and the United States (13.6 tonnes a person).

Which country in North America has the lowest CO₂ emissions per person?

Haiti, with 0.30 tonnes a person (2024).

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

The median of the 23 countries in North America is 1.91 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.

Countries in North America by co₂ per person

Carbon dioxide emitted in a year, divided by the population: fossil fuels and industry, without land use change and forestry. 23 countries in North America, highest first. World Bank, 2024

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Highest

19.6

Trinidad and Tobago

Median country

1.91

half above, half below

Lowest

0.30

Haiti

Countries in North America by co₂ per person, World Bank, 2024
#	Country	t per person	Region
1	Trinidad and Tobago	19.6	Caribbean
2	Canada	14.0	Northern America
3	United States	13.6	Northern America
4	Antigua and Barbuda	3.80	Caribbean
=5	Bahamas	3.64	Caribbean
=5	Mexico	3.64	Central America
7	Dominican Republic	2.99	Caribbean
8	Saint Kitts and Nevis	2.88	Caribbean
9	Jamaica	2.84	Caribbean
10	Panama	2.74	Central America
11	Barbados	2.52	Caribbean
12	Cuba	1.91	Caribbean
13	Saint Lucia	1.71	Caribbean
14	Costa Rica	1.63	Central America
15	El Salvador	1.51	Central America
16	Grenada	1.50	Caribbean
17	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.31	Caribbean
18	Dominica	1.27	Caribbean
19	Honduras	1.14	Central America
20	Guatemala	1.11	Central America
21	Belize	0.93	Central America
22	Nicaragua	0.83	Central America
23	Haiti	0.30	Caribbean

Territories and other places

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

Place	t per person	Status
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
Bermuda	4.14	Territory of United Kingdom
British Virgin Islands	2.33	Territory of United Kingdom
US Virgin Islands	0.00	Territory of United States of America

Questions

Which country in North America has the highest CO₂ emissions per person?: Trinidad and Tobago has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in North America: 19.6 tonnes a person (2024). Next come Canada (14.0 tonnes a person) and the United States (13.6 tonnes a person).
Which country in North America has the lowest CO₂ emissions per person?: Haiti, with 0.30 tonnes a person (2024).
What is the typical co₂ per person of a country in North America?: The median of the 23 countries in North America is 1.91 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.