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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950

Figures for 1950, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950 covers 173 countries. Sint Maarten is highest, at 470.74312; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 0.00096. The middle country reads 0.53950.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1950

HighestSint Maarten

470.74312

LowestBurkina Faso

0.00096

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950, as published. Global Carbon Project ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 173 countries · select a heading to sort

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean470.74312
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean60.25820
3LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe25.04095
4United StatesUSANorthern America16.48146
5QatarQATWestern Asia14.48520
6BahrainBHRWestern Asia11.77974
7CanadaCANNorthern America11.21646
8United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe9.96044
9ArubaABWCaribbean9.58349
10BelgiumBELWestern Europe8.84302
11BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia8.57262
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe7.30873
13VenezuelaVENSouth America6.98526
14AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand6.80412
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia6.65558
16CzechiaCZEEastern Europe6.48793
17EstoniaESTNorthern Europe6.21845
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe5.34437
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe5.18780
20DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe5.15558
21NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe5.07239
22FranceFRAWestern Europe4.83371
23South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa4.67185
24PolandPOLEastern Europe4.51436
25New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand4.48345

02In 1950

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sint Maarten470.74312
  2. 2Curaçao60.25820
  3. 3Luxembourg25.04095
  4. 4United States16.48146
  5. 5Qatar14.48520

Lowest

  1. 173Burkina Faso0.00096
  2. 172Nepal0.00306
  3. 171Burundi0.00390
  4. 170Ethiopia0.00498
  5. 169Rwanda0.00781

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.53950. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • The position is ours

    Global Carbon Project publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 173 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

Global Carbon Project (1950). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950 [data set], describing 1950. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1950

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06Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950?

Sint Maarten, at 470.74312, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950 describe?

1950.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950 cover?

173.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1950 the newest?

No. The newest held here is CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2024.

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