Contribution to global warming from greenhouse gases
Change in global mean surface temperature caused by the country's cumulative CO₂, methane and N₂O emissions.
- World total
- 1.6730 °C
- across 205 countries, 2024
- Latest observation
- 2024
- 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, 2024.
Highest 5
- 0.2960 °C
- 0.2170 °C
- 0.1180 °C
- 0.0880 °C
- 0.0800 °C
Source: Our World in Data — co2 · temperature_change_from_ghg
Lowest 5
- 201Tuvalu0.0000 °C
- 0.0000 °C
- 203Fiji0.0000 °C
- 204Cabo Verde0.0000 °C
- 205Belize0.0000 °C
Source: Our World in Data — co2 · temperature_change_from_ghg
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
No series for the selected countries.
Definition
- Definition
- Change in global mean surface temperature caused by the country's cumulative CO₂, methane and N₂O emissions.
- Unit
- °C
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- sum · No direction
- Valid range
- 0 – 2
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source205 countries · 35,670 obs. · → 2024 · 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=temperature-change-from-ghg" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'