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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2018

Figures for 2018, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2018 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 37.1663; DR Congo is lowest, at 0.0419. The middle country reads 3.0364. Against 2017, 210 values changed (102 up, 108 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2018

HighestQatar

37.1663

LowestDR Congo

0.0419

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia37.1663
2Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean27.4103
3CuraçaoCUWCaribbean23.8102
4KuwaitKWTWestern Asia23.6974
5United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia21.8367
6BahrainBHRWestern Asia21.8335
7Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia21.4787
8BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia21.3359
9New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia20.8542
10KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia17.4075
11Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean17.2534
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand16.5122
13United StatesUSANorthern America16.0010
14LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe15.7148
15CanadaCANNorthern America15.4200
16OmanOMNWestern Asia15.3719
17MongoliaMNGEastern Asia14.3067
18Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe14.2155
19EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.4653
20South KoreaKOREastern Asia12.9775
21TaiwanTWNEastern Asia12.0101
22PalauPLWMicronesia11.9295
23RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.6773
24BermudaBMUNorthern America10.9063
25IcelandISLNorthern Europe10.3877

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar37.1663
  2. 2Trinidad and Tobago27.4103
  3. 3Curaçao23.8102
  4. 4Kuwait23.6974
  5. 5United Arab Emirates21.8367

Lowest

  1. 210DR Congo0.0419
  2. 209Burundi0.0544
  3. 208Central African Republic0.0556
  4. 207Somalia0.0669
  5. 206Niger0.0813

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.0364. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 210values changed, of 210 in both
  • 102 · 108rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 (2018). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2018

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2018?

Qatar, at 37.1663, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2018 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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