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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2010

Figures for 2010, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2010 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 43.09030; Burundi is lowest, at 0.03556. The middle country reads 2.81155. Against 2009, 210 values changed (147 up, 63 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2010

HighestQatar

43.09030

LowestBurundi

0.03556

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, 2010, 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, 2010: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia43.09030
2Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean33.96114
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia30.48239
4United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia26.78563
5CuraçaoCUWCaribbean25.71287
6ArubaABWCaribbean25.03322
7BahrainBHRWestern Asia24.02032
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia22.08677
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe22.05417
10BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia20.43520
11OmanOMNWestern Asia18.65101
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand18.29255
13United StatesUSANorthern America18.22542
14CanadaCANNorthern America16.20929
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia14.73514
16EstoniaESTNorthern Europe14.24369
17New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia13.98271
18Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean13.28593
19Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe13.00720
20MontserratMSRCaribbean12.22862
21South KoreaKOREastern Asia12.18674
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe11.94999
23GreenlandGRLNorthern America11.67035
24TaiwanTWNEastern Asia11.65680
25IcelandISLNorthern Europe11.39885

02In 2010

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar43.09030
  2. 2Trinidad and Tobago33.96114
  3. 3Kuwait30.48239
  4. 4United Arab Emirates26.78563
  5. 5Curaçao25.71287

Lowest

  1. 210Burundi0.03556
  2. 209Central African Republic0.03751
  3. 208DR Congo0.03990
  4. 207Rwanda0.05631
  5. 206Somalia0.06335

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.81155. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since 2009

What changed between 2009 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 210values changed, of 210 in both
  • 147 · 63rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Curaçao37.58163 → 25.71287−11.86876
  • Sint Maarten19.46259 → 13.28593−6.17667
  • Aruba26.52954 → 25.03322−1.49632
  • Kuwait31.77700 → 30.48239−1.29461
  • Macau3.44740 → 2.19395−1.25345

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 (2010). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2010 [data set], describing 2010. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2010

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2010: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2010?

Qatar, at 43.09030, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2010 describe?

2010.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2010 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2010?

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, 2010 the newest?

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

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