CO₂ emissions per unit of GDP
- World median
- 0.191
- across 164 countries, 2022
- Latest observation
- 2022
- Source updated
- 2 Jun 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2022.
Top 5
- 0.059
- 0.060
- 0.063
- 0.065
- 0.068
Source: Our World in Data — co2 · co2_per_gdp
Bottom 5
- 160Venezuela0.724
- 161Mongolia0.903
- 0.999
- 163Turkmenistan1.047
- 164North Korea1.390
Source: Our World in Data — co2 · co2_per_gdp
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
No series for the selected countries.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- kg per US$ (2011 PPP) (kg/$)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Lower is better
- Valid range
- 0 – 10
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source164 countries · 14,672 obs. · → 2022 · CC BY 4.0
OWID CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions dataset — https://github.com/owid/co2-data
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
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-gdp" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'