CO₂ by country

CO₂ from fossil fuels and industry, country by country, from Our World in Data. The table ranks the 164 countries with total, per-person and per-GDP figures for 2022.

The 164 ranked countries, 2022, by total CO2
Rank	Country	Million tonnes	Tonnes per person	kg per $ (PPP)
1	China	11,712	8.22	0.434
2	United States	5,055	14.8	0.259
3	India	2,831	1.99	0.27
4	Russia	1,675	11.5	0.449
5	Japan	1,030	8.24	0.216
6	Iran	767	8.57	0.488
7	Indonesia	758	2.72	0.217
8	Germany	668	7.94	0.171
9	Saudi Arabia	667	20.7	0.366
10	South Korea	607	11.7	0.284
11	Canada	548	14.1	0.311
12	Brazil	480	2.28	0.151
13	Mexico	454	3.53	0.223
14	Turkey	444	5.10	0.186
15	South Africa	429	6.87	0.593
16	Australia	384	14.7	0.286
17	Italy	340	5.70	0.159
18	Vietnam	323	3.24	0.387
19	Poland	315	8.20	0.256
20	United Kingdom	311	4.56	0.119
21	France	295	4.46	0.111
22	Malaysia	282	8.12	0.321
23	Kazakhstan	274	13.7	0.545
24	Taiwan	274	11.7	0.22
25	Thailand	273	3.80	0.242
26	Egypt	250	2.22	0.171
27	Spain	234	4.90	0.144
28	Iraq	218	4.94	0.412
29	Pakistan	212	0.87	0.161
30	United Arab Emirates	207	20.2	0.266
31	Algeria	193	4.24	0.324
32	Argentina	184	4.05	0.215
33	Philippines	151	1.32	0.149
34	Ukraine	143	3.48	0.463
35	Nigeria	131	0.589	0.116
36	Netherlands	128	7.12	0.145
37	Uzbekistan	119	3.41	0.303
38	Kuwait	116	25.2	0.529
39	Qatar	110	37.9	0.287
40	Venezuela	108	3.84	0.724
41	Bangladesh	102	0.603	0.119
42	Turkmenistan	102	14.1	1.05
43	Czechia	95.0	8.90	0.277
44	Colombia	89.4	1.73	0.12
45	Belgium	88.9	7.64	0.182
46	Chile	85.7	4.39	0.191
47	Oman	78.0	16.5	0.44
48	Romania	73.2	3.82	0.145
49	Morocco	69.8	1.87	0.224
50	Peru	64.8	1.94	0.19
51	Israel	62.3	6.84	0.185
52	Austria	61.5	6.78	0.154
53	Libya	59.0	8.16	0.645
54	Greece	57.6	5.53	0.218
55	Belarus	57.1	6.23	0.325
56	North Korea	56.3	2.14	1.39
57	Singapore	48.9	8.66	0.106
58	Bulgaria	46.9	6.88	0.339
59	Hungary	45.3	4.67	0.159
60	Serbia	44.5	6.55	0.381
61	Ecuador	42.1	2.36	0.24
62	Azerbaijan	41.2	4.00	0.235
63	Norway	40.8	7.48	0.0847
64	Portugal	40.7	3.91	0.138
65	Mongolia	40.4	11.9	0.903
66	Bahrain	37.8	24.7	0.644
67	Trinidad and Tobago	37.5	25.1	0.999
68	Ireland	36.7	7.18	0.119
69	Sweden	36.3	3.47	0.0735
70	Finland	36.3	6.52	0.161
71	Switzerland	33.0	3.75	0.0589
72	New Zealand	32.0	6.23	0.159
73	Myanmar	31.6	0.589	0.109
74	Slovakia	31.6	5.77	0.21
75	Syria	31.4	1.40	0.6
76	Dominican Republic	31.2	2.78	0.163
77	Tunisia	30.8	2.54	0.238
78	Hong Kong	30.8	4.12	0.0862
79	Denmark	29.1	4.93	0.0972
80	Bolivia	23.5	1.94	0.3
81	Cuba	23.3	2.10	0.276
82	Laos	22.5	2.98	0.41
83	Jordan	22.4	1.99	0.226
84	Angola	21.1	0.592	0.133
85	Cambodia	20.9	1.21	0.32
86	Ghana	20.7	0.626	0.143
87	Bosnia and Herzegovina	20.7	6.47	0.441
88	Kenya	20.5	0.379	0.108
89	Tanzania	19.7	0.304	0.0994
90	Guatemala	18.9	1.06	0.129
91	Sri Lanka	18.4	0.805	0.0721
92	Nepal	17.6	0.593	0.183
93	Croatia	17.6	4.50	0.172
94	Ethiopia	17.0	0.135	0.0628
95	Lebanon	15.4	2.67	0.315
96	Cote d'Ivoire	14.5	0.477	0.119
97	Senegal	14.1	0.801	0.272
98	Lithuania	12.9	4.58	0.152
99	Slovenia	12.7	6.02	0.183
100	Zimbabwe	12.2	0.761	0.472
101	Georgia	12.0	3.16	0.17
102	Estonia	12.0	8.86	0.299
103	Honduras	11.7	1.12	0.236
104	Panama	11.7	2.66	0.124
105	Kyrgyzstan	11.5	1.66	0.363
106	Zambia	10.9	0.543	0.16
107	Tajikistan	10.5	1.03	0.208
108	Yemen	10.4	0.272	0.171
109	Afghanistan	10.2	0.251	0.191
110	Cameroon	9.79	0.354	0.118
111	Mozambique	9.30	0.285	0.296
112	Congo	8.73	1.45	0.369
113	Costa Rica	8.01	1.58	0.0997
114	El Salvador	7.91	1.26	0.134
115	Jamaica	7.91	2.79	0.395
116	Armenia	7.70	2.67	0.194
117	Paraguay	7.53	1.11	0.116
118	Uruguay	7.50	2.21	0.109
119	Equatorial Guinea	7.50	4.16	0.371
120	Botswana	7.40	3.03	0.188
121	North Macedonia	7.35	4.00	0.256
122	Luxembourg	7.27	11.1	0.201
123	Cyprus	7.07	5.31	0.206
124	Mali	7.02	0.304	0.23
125	Latvia	6.61	3.51	0.129
126	Burkina Faso	6.54	0.291	0.175
127	Uganda	6.13	0.13	0.0601
128	Benin	6.09	0.443	0.183
129	Democratic Republic of Congo	5.89	0.0575	0.0645
130	Gabon	5.78	2.38	0.16
131	Mauritania	5.27	1.08	0.336
132	Moldova	5.17	1.70	0.217
133	Nicaragua	5.13	0.762	0.157
134	Palestine	4.70	0.886	0.195
135	Albania	4.50	1.59	0.124
136	Mauritius	4.32	3.38	0.16
137	Madagascar	4.21	0.138	0.109
138	Guinea	4.05	0.288	0.171
139	Iceland	3.60	9.46	0.225
140	Namibia	3.41	1.18	0.156
141	Niger	3.20	0.126	0.129
142	Haiti	2.87	0.25	0.164
143	Chad	2.80	0.152	0.116
144	Togo	2.74	0.339	0.192
145	Lesotho	2.55	1.12	0.536
146	Montenegro	2.50	4.06	0.195
147	Rwanda	1.96	0.143	0.0688
148	Malawi	1.80	0.0876	0.0681
149	Malta	1.77	3.36	0.097
150	Sierra Leone	1.44	0.174	0.124
151	Barbados	1.31	4.66	0.386
152	Eswatini	1.03	0.844	0.107
153	Burundi	0.878	0.0659	0.0956
154	Liberia	0.864	0.161	0.204
155	Gambia	0.808	0.306	0.174
156	Seychelles	0.629	5.01	0.206
157	Cape Verde	0.598	1.15	0.141
158	Djibouti	0.55	0.484	0.162
159	Comoros	0.532	0.637	0.316
160	Saint Lucia	0.518	2.90	0.296
161	Central African Republic	0.377	0.074	0.101
162	Guinea-Bissau	0.344	0.164	0.106
163	Dominica	0.165	2.47	0.244
164	Sao Tome and Principe	0.136	0.599	0.164

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These countries have pages but are not ranked: the snapshot lacks at least one of the three figures for 2022.

Sources and licences

Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (owid-co2-data.csv): countries from 1950. Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions), based on the Global Carbon Budget (2025), the Maddison Project Database 2023 (Bolt and van Zanden) and OWID's population series. Retrieved 16 October 2026. CC BY 4.0 for Our World in Data's own work; data produced by third parties keeps its source's terms (OWID's co2-data README). CO2: Global Carbon Budget (2025); GDP: Maddison Project Database 2023; population: OWID's population series. Terms, full data file. Changes: Countries only (rows with a three-letter ISO code), years from 1950, and the columns iso_code, country, year, population, co2, co2_per_capita, co2_per_gdp and the CO2 by source (coal, oil, gas, cement, flaring, other industry); values and row order as published; LF line endings.

CO2 by country

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CO₂ by country