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CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2021

Figures for 2021, as Global Carbon Project published them · stored as published, never rewritten

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2021 covers 210 countries. Qatar is highest, at 37.0822; DR Congo is lowest, at 0.0433. The middle country reads 3.0870. Against 2020, 210 values changed (154 up, 56 down), the same countries are covered.

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CO₂ Emissions per Capita · Data for 2021

HighestQatar

37.0822

LowestDR Congo

0.0433

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by Global Carbon Project.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia37.0822
2BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia25.9205
3Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean24.4595
4BahrainBHRWestern Asia24.1484
5Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia22.1970
6United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia21.6745
7KuwaitKWTWestern Asia20.1500
8OmanOMNWestern Asia16.6743
9Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean16.3937
10New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia15.9066
11AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand14.9663
12United StatesUSANorthern America14.7580
13Faroe IslandsFRONorthern Europe14.7110
14CanadaCANNorthern America13.9772
15LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe13.1342
16TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia12.9291
17KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia12.4042
18TaiwanTWNEastern Asia12.0476
19PalauPLWMicronesia11.9503
20South KoreaKOREastern Asia11.8822
21CuraçaoCUWCaribbean11.5467
22RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.4822
23MongoliaMNGEastern Asia10.7710
24GreenlandGRLNorthern America9.7492
25AnguillaAIACaribbean9.6188

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar37.0822
  2. 2Brunei25.9205
  3. 3Trinidad and Tobago24.4595
  4. 4Bahrain24.1484
  5. 5Saudi Arabia22.1970

Lowest

  1. 210DR Congo0.0433
  2. 209Burundi0.0595
  3. 208Somalia0.0668
  4. 207Central African Republic0.0717
  5. 206Malawi0.0839

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.0870. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 210values changed, of 210 in both
  • 154 · 56rose · 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 (2021). CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/co2-per-capita/2021

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07Questions

CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest CO₂ emissions per person in CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2021?

Qatar, at 37.0822, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2021 cover?

210.

Where can I download CO₂ Emissions per Capita, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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