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Sao Tome and Principe

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry produced in Sao Tome and Principe (territorial emissions; land-use change is not included). The figures below are for 2022, the latest year with total, per-person and per-GDP figures for at least 150 countries.

2022 at a glance

Total
0.136 million tonnes164th of 164 countries in 2022
Per person
0.599 tonnes131st of 164 countries in 2022
Per unit of GDP
0.164 kg per international dollar (2011 prices, PPP)100th of 164 countries in 2022

In 2024, the latest year with a total, Sao Tome and Principe emitted 0.142 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, Sao Tome and Principe, 1951 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in Sao Tome and Principe was 0.142 million tonnes in 2024, 198% more than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1951 and 2024 was 0.147 million tonnes, in 2016.

Show the data as a table
Every fifth year and the latest
YearMillion tonnes
19550.00366
19600.011
19650.011
19700.0147
19750.0183
19800.0403
19850.055
19900.0476
19950.0476
20000.0513
20050.0769
20100.106
20150.136
20200.143
20240.142

By source, 2022

OWID splits CO2 by the fuel or process it comes from, not by economic sector. The published parts add up to 0.136 million tonnes of the 0.136 million tonne total.

CO2 by source, Sao Tome and Principe, 2022, million tonnes
SourceMillion tonnes
Oil0.136
Cement0
Gas flaring0

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.

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