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Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita by country

tonnes per person · 120 countries ranked · 2023

Rank 1 = best (lower is better for this indicator).25 of 120
  1. 1MalawiWorld rank 1st of 120
    down −1.3 %
  2. 2EthiopiaWorld rank 2nd of 120
    up +1.7 %
  3. 3UgandaWorld rank 2nd of 120
    down −5.2 %
  4. up +1.5 %
  5. 5Burkina FasoWorld rank 5th of 120
    down −1.6 %
  6. 6RwandaWorld rank 5th of 120
    up +1.2 %
  7. 7CameroonWorld rank 7th of 120
    up +1.1 %
  8. 8TanzaniaWorld rank 8th of 120
    down −3.0 %
  9. 9MozambiqueWorld rank 9th of 120
    down −5.5 %
  10. 10GuineaWorld rank 10th of 120
    down −2.4 %
  11. 11Côte d'IvoireWorld rank 11th of 120
    down −4.5 %
  12. 12NigeriaWorld rank 12th of 120
    down −6.5 %
  13. 13BeninWorld rank 13th of 120
    down −4.3 %
  14. 14ZambiaWorld rank 14th of 120
    up +5.3 %
  15. 15KenyaWorld rank 15th of 120
    down −0.6 %
  16. 16GhanaWorld rank 16th of 120
    down −3.9 %
  17. 17PakistanWorld rank 17th of 120
    down −11.7 %
  18. 18ZimbabweWorld rank 18th of 120
    up +10.7 %
  19. 19BangladeshWorld rank 19th of 120
    down −0.2 %
  20. 20HondurasWorld rank 20th of 120
    up +5.9 %
  21. 21NicaraguaWorld rank 21st of 120
    up +1.1 %
  22. 22TogoWorld rank 21st of 120
    down −4.5 %
  23. 23SenegalWorld rank 23rd of 120
    down −2.5 %
  24. 24TajikistanWorld rank 24th of 120
    down −7.4 %
  25. 25GuatemalaWorld rank 25th of 120
    up +1.0 %

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Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, 2023. Quantile classes; hatched = no data.

Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita, 2023World map of Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita (2023) for 120 countries, from 0.15 t to 32.29 t.Fiji: —Tanzania: 0.39 tW. Sahara: —Canada: 13.23 tUnited States: 15.81 tKazakhstan: 10.46 tUzbekistan: —Papua New Guinea: —Indonesia: 2.59 tArgentina: 4.08 tChile: 4.48 tDR Congo: —Somalia: —Kenya: 0.63 tSudan: —Chad: —Haiti: —Dominican Republic: 3.57 tRussia: 9.67 tBahamas: —Falkland Is.: —Norway: 7.06 tGreenland: —Fr. S. Antarctic Lands: —Timor-Leste: —South Africa: 5.15 tLesotho: —Mexico: 4.36 tUruguay: 3.18 tBrazil: 2.23 tBolivia: 2.09 tPeru: 2.33 tColombia: 2.00 tPanama: 4.38 tCosta Rica: 2.88 tNicaragua: 1.05 tHonduras: 0.98 tEl Salvador: 1.78 tGuatemala: 1.40 tBelize: —Venezuela: 3.55 tGuyana: —Suriname: —France: 6.13 tEcuador: 2.72 tPuerto Rico: —Jamaica: 2.94 tCuba: —Zimbabwe: 0.94 tBotswana: 5.85 tNamibia: 3.26 tSenegal: 1.05 tMali: —Mauritania: —Benin: 0.60 tNiger: —Nigeria: 0.59 tCameroon: 0.37 tTogo: 1.05 tGhana: 0.78 tCôte d'Ivoire: 0.57 tGuinea: 0.44 tGuinea-Bissau: —Liberia: —Sierra Leone: —Burkina Faso: 0.25 tCentral African Republic: —Republic of the Congo: —Gabon: —Equatorial Guinea: —Zambia: 0.61 tMalawi: 0.15 tMozambique: 0.43 tEswatini: —Angola: —Burundi: —Israel: 9.54 tLebanon: —Madagascar: 0.21 tPalestine: —Gambia: —Tunisia: 2.47 tAlgeria: —Jordan: 2.78 tUnited Arab Emirates: 23.31 tQatar: 27.60 tKuwait: 25.28 tIraq: —Oman: 16.51 tVanuatu: —Cambodia: 2.24 tThailand: 4.26 tLaos: 1.93 tMyanmar: —Vietnam: 2.47 tNorth Korea: —South Korea: 13.70 tMongolia: 10.67 tIndia: 1.77 tBangladesh: 0.98 tBhutan: —Nepal: 1.59 tPakistan: 0.89 tAfghanistan: —Tajikistan: 1.25 tKyrgyzstan: 2.71 tTurkmenistan: —Iran: 7.38 tSyria: —Armenia: 2.61 tSweden: 5.85 tBelarus: 6.86 tUkraine: 4.41 tPoland: 7.07 tAustria: 8.38 tHungary: 5.86 tMoldova: —Romania: 4.09 tLithuania: 7.19 tLatvia: 7.10 tEstonia: 9.21 tGermany: 9.09 tBulgaria: 5.20 tGreece: 6.56 tTürkiye: 5.54 tAlbania: 1.91 tCroatia: 6.09 tSwitzerland: 13.34 tLuxembourg: 11.02 tBelgium: 16.79 tNetherlands: 8.30 tPortugal: 4.55 tSpain: 5.44 tIreland: 7.86 tNew Caledonia: —Solomon Islands: —New Zealand: 8.00 tAustralia: 14.07 tSri Lanka: 2.02 tChina: 7.63 tTaiwan: 12.64 tItaly: 7.21 tDenmark: 8.32 tUnited Kingdom: 7.09 tIceland: —Azerbaijan: 3.96 tGeorgia: 4.04 tPhilippines: 1.84 tMalaysia: 8.16 tBrunei: 19.34 tSlovenia: 9.32 tFinland: 8.47 tSlovakia: 6.35 tCzechia: 9.25 tEritrea: —Japan: 9.19 tParaguay: 1.92 tYemen: —Saudi Arabia: 19.66 tN. Cyprus: —Cyprus: 6.41 tMorocco: 1.85 tEgypt: 2.21 tLibya: —Ethiopia: 0.18 tDjibouti: —Somaliland: —Uganda: 0.18 tRwanda: 0.25 tBosnia and Herzegovina: —North Macedonia: —Serbia: —Montenegro: —Kosovo: —Trinidad and Tobago: 14.87 tSouth Sudan: —
  • 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
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Rank over time

Position in the world ranking by year, up to 5 countries. Rank 1 is at the top.

MalawiEthiopiaUganda
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Rank by year for Malawi, Ethiopia, Uganda, 2000–2024.