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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955

Figures for 1955, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955 covers 180 countries. Sint Maarten is highest, at 617.8781; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 0.0008. The middle country reads 0.6389. Against 1954, 177 values changed (134 up, 43 down), 3 countries joined.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 1955

HighestSint Maarten

617.8781

LowestBurkina Faso

0.0008

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, 1955, 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 180 countries · select a heading to sort

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean617.8781
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean93.1359
3LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe32.4122
4United StatesUSANorthern America16.4170
5ArubaABWCaribbean14.8096
6QatarQATWestern Asia14.6375
7United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.2575
8CanadaCANNorthern America10.7753
9BelgiumBELWestern Europe10.4153
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe10.2828
11BahrainBHRWestern Asia10.2379
12New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia10.1191
13KuwaitKWTWestern Asia9.9222
14EstoniaESTNorthern Europe8.9357
15VenezuelaVENSouth America8.8444
16KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia8.6015
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe8.1540
18GreenlandGRLNorthern America7.9528
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand7.8158
20SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe6.3815
21DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe6.1005
22TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia6.0534
23IcelandISLNorthern Europe5.7836
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa5.7061
25PolandPOLEastern Europe5.6942

02In 1955

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Sint Maarten617.8781
  2. 2Curaçao93.1359
  3. 3Luxembourg32.4122
  4. 4United States16.4170
  5. 5Aruba14.8096

Lowest

  1. 180Burkina Faso0.0008
  2. 179Burundi0.0030
  3. 178Nepal0.0047
  4. 177Rwanda0.0056
  5. 176Niger0.0085

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.6389. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031954 → 1955

Since 1954

What changed between 1954 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 177values changed, of 177 in both
  • 134 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Sint Maarten792.9811 → 617.8781−175.1030
  • Curaçao115.6790 → 93.1359−22.5430
  • Qatar22.0243 → 14.6375−7.3868
  • Aruba18.3843 → 14.8096−3.5747
  • Brunei5.8663 → 4.6074−1.2589
+ Cambodia+ Laos+ French Polynesia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 180 countries has every column.

05The 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 (1955). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955 [data set], describing 1955. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/1955

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955?

Sint Maarten, at 617.8781, of the 180 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955 describe?

1955.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955 cover?

180.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 1955?

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, 1955 the newest?

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

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