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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003

Figures for 2003, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 62.61858; Burundi is lowest, at 0.02393. The middle country reads 2.91776. Against 2002, 210 values changed (155 up, 55 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2003

HighestQatar

62.61858

LowestBurundi

0.02393

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, 2003, 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 210 countries · select a heading to sort

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia62.61858
2CuraçaoCUWCaribbean32.97177
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia29.61817
4ArubaABWCaribbean27.74495
5BahrainBHRWestern Asia25.85606
6United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia25.54727
7Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean24.17996
8LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe23.12984
9United StatesUSANorthern America20.71843
10AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand18.70810
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia18.69548
12CanadaCANNorthern America18.25549
13BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia17.71201
14Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean17.32767
15Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe15.45242
16OmanOMNWestern Asia14.62198
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe13.93797
18EstoniaESTNorthern Europe12.58398
19CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.44929
20BelgiumBELWestern Europe12.36400
21New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia11.51589
22IrelandIRLNorthern Europe11.44120
23GreenlandGRLNorthern America11.43924
24DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11.25018
25KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia11.11436

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar62.61858
  2. 2Curaçao32.97177
  3. 3Kuwait29.61817
  4. 4Aruba27.74495
  5. 5Bahrain25.85606

Lowest

  1. 210Burundi0.02393
  2. 209Central African Republic0.02768
  3. 208DR Congo0.03787
  4. 207Guinea-Bissau0.05557
  5. 206Uganda0.05741

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.91776. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 210values changed, of 210 in both
  • 155 · 55rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Niue3.77343 → 1.92034−1.85309
  • Montserrat9.82306 → 8.16036−1.66270
  • Nauru7.63182 → 6.55652−1.07530
  • Qatar63.51845 → 62.61858−0.89987
  • Bahrain26.73727 → 25.85606−0.88121

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 210 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 (2003). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2003

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003?

Qatar, at 62.61858, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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