CO₂ emissions per capita
- World average (population-weighted)
- 4.58 t
- across 212 countries, 2024
- Latest observation
- 2024
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- 0.00 t – 0.47 t
- 0.47 t – 1.40 t
- 1.40 t – 3.04 t
- 3.04 t – 4.73 t
- 4.73 t – 7.59 t
- 7.59 t – 41.27 t
- No data
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
- Population-weighted mean
- Median
2 series from 1750 to 2024: Population-weighted mean, Median.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2024.
Top 5
- 1Guam0.00 t
- 0.00 t
- 0.00 t
- 0.00 t
- 0.05 t
Source: World Bank — WDI · EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5
Bottom 5
Source: Our World in Data — co2 · co2_per_capita
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
- United States
- China
- Germany
3 series from 1800 to 2024: United States, China, Germany.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- tonnes per person (t)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Lower is better
- Valid range
- 0 – 120
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source205 countries · 22,506 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY 4.0
OWID CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions dataset — https://github.com/owid/co2-data
- Priority #2Open at source203 countries · 11,165 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY 4.0
Total annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF, standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values divided by the economy's population. This measure excludes GHG fluxes caused by Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), as these fluxes have larger uncertainties. Source: EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission, uri: https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg2024, publisher: JRC European Commission, date published: 2024; International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg2024, publisher: JRC European Commission, date published: 2024
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
6 of 218 countries have no value for 2024.
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=co2-per-capita" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'