Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita
- World average (population-weighted)
- 4.89 t
- across 120 countries, 2023
- Latest observation
- 2023
- 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.
- 0.15 t – 1.04 t
- 1.04 t – 2.42 t
- 2.42 t – 4.39 t
- 4.39 t – 7.09 t
- 7.09 t – 10.49 t
- 10.49 t – 32.29 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 1990 to 2023: Population-weighted mean, Median.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2023.
Top 5
- 0.15 t
- 0.18 t
- 0.18 t
- 0.21 t
- 0.25 t
Source: Our World in Data — co2 · consumption_co2_per_capita
Bottom 5
Source: Our World in Data — co2 · consumption_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 1990 to 2023: 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 source120 countries · 4,064 obs. · → 2023 · 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
98 of 218 countries have no value for 2023.
- DR Congo
- Myanmar
- Sudan
- Algeria
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Yemen
- Angola
- Uzbekistan
- Niger
- North Korea
- Syria
- Mali
- Chad
- Somalia
- Burundi
- South Sudan
- Haiti
- Cuba
- Papua New Guinea
- Sierra Leone
- Turkmenistan
- Libya
- Serbia
- 74 more
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=consumption-co2-per-capita" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'