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Environment Statistics > CO2 Emissions (per capita) (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)   
#1  Qatar:40.6735 per 1,000 people 
#2  United Arab Emirates:28.213 per 1,000 people 
#3  Kuwait:25.0499 per 1,000 people 
#4  Bahrain:20.0253 per 1,000 people 
#5  United States:19.4839 per 1,000 people 
#6  Luxembourg:17.977 per 1,000 people 
#7  Trinidad and Tobago:16.8278 per 1,000 people 
#8  Australia:16.5444 per 1,000 people 
#9  Canada:15.8941 per 1,000 people 
#10  Singapore:13.8137 per 1,000 people 
#11  Czech Republic:12.115 per 1,000 people 
#12  Belgium:12.0632 per 1,000 people 
#13  Palau:11.9096 per 1,000 people 
#14  Estonia:11.1657 per 1,000 people 
#15  Finland:10.8403 per 1,000 people 
#16  Russia:10.7402 per 1,000 people 
#17  Ireland:10.6612 per 1,000 people 
#18  Netherlands:10.6545 per 1,000 people 
#19  Nauru:10.3924 per 1,000 people 
#20  Germany:10.1591 per 1,000 people 
#21  Saudi Arabia:10.072 per 1,000 people 
#22  Israel:9.99186 per 1,000 people 
#23  Japan:9.61204 per 1,000 people 
#24  Denmark:9.44788 per 1,000 people 
#25  United Kingdom:9.23587 per 1,000 people 
#26  Cyprus:8.99411 per 1,000 people 
#27  Greece:8.63801 per 1,000 people 
#28  Oman:8.32285 per 1,000 people 
#29  Kazakhstan:8.14471 per 1,000 people 
#30  New Zealand:8.08758 per 1,000 people 
#31  Poland:7.87846 per 1,000 people 
#32  Austria:7.8658 per 1,000 people 
#33  South Africa:7.77085 per 1,000 people 
#34  Norway:7.68826 per 1,000 people 
#35  Italy:7.68629 per 1,000 people 
#36  Spain:7.55763 per 1,000 people 
#37  Iceland:7.5208 per 1,000 people 
#38  Slovenia:7.49269 per 1,000 people 
#39  Ukraine:7.41232 per 1,000 people 
#40  Korea, North:7.34636 per 1,000 people 
#41  Libya:7.33176 per 1,000 people 
#42  Turkmenistan:6.98387 per 1,000 people 
#43  Slovakia:6.79936 per 1,000 people 
#44  Portugal:6.1342 per 1,000 people 
#45  Bulgaria:6.00413 per 1,000 people 
#46  France:5.99255 per 1,000 people 
#47  Belarus:5.78257 per 1,000 people 
#48  Bahamas, The:5.71954 per 1,000 people 
#49  Hungary:5.68097 per 1,000 people 
#50  Switzerland:5.5801 per 1,000 people 
#51  Sweden:5.41667 per 1,000 people 
#52  Venezuela:5.38662 per 1,000 people 
#53  Malta:5.36993 per 1,000 people 
#54  Antigua and Barbuda:5.2254 per 1,000 people 
#55  Malaysia:5.16022 per 1,000 people 
#56  Suriname:5.12115 per 1,000 people 
#57  Barbados:4.78503 per 1,000 people 
#58  Uzbekistan:4.50801 per 1,000 people 
#59  Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:4.3334 per 1,000 people 
#60  Croatia:4.26853 per 1,000 people 
#61  Serbia and Montenegro:4.09594 per 1,000 people 
#62  Lebanon:4.06937 per 1,000 people 
#63  Romania:4.06309 per 1,000 people 
#64  Jamaica:3.77182 per 1,000 people 
#65  Azerbaijan:3.72721 per 1,000 people 
#66  Mexico:3.62584 per 1,000 people 
#67  Argentina:3.51517 per 1,000 people 
#68  Chile:3.42842 per 1,000 people 
#69  Bosnia and Herzegovina:3.22108 per 1,000 people 
#70  Lithuania:3.21763 per 1,000 people 
#71  Turkey:3.21359 per 1,000 people 
#72  Iraq:3.0108 per 1,000 people 
#73  Belize:2.94218 per 1,000 people 
#74  Latvia:2.83406 per 1,000 people 
#75  Cuba:2.76319 per 1,000 people 
#76  Seychelles:2.76149 per 1,000 people 
#77  Jordan:2.69712 per 1,000 people 
#78  Saint Lucia:2.6787 per 1,000 people 
#79  Thailand:2.67498 per 1,000 people 
#80  China:2.65908 per 1,000 people 
#81  Saint Kitts and Nevis:2.63361 per 1,000 people 
#82  Mongolia:2.60892 per 1,000 people 
#83  Botswana:2.45933 per 1,000 people 
#84  Algeria:2.28009 per 1,000 people 
#85  Mauritius:2.27132 per 1,000 people 
#86  Dominican Republic:2.19743 per 1,000 people 
#87  Guyana:2.13098 per 1,000 people 
#88  Tunisia:2.00289 per 1,000 people 
#89  Uruguay:1.87608 per 1,000 people 
#90  Panama:1.81812 per 1,000 people 
#91  Brazil:1.76161 per 1,000 people 
#92  Maldives:1.72756 per 1,000 people 
#93  Egypt:1.64027 per 1,000 people 
#94  Ecuador:1.54933 per 1,000 people 
#95  Colombia:1.48993 per 1,000 people 
#96  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:1.403 per 1,000 people 
#97  Equatorial Guinea:1.35322 per 1,000 people 
#98  Georgia:1.33273 per 1,000 people 
#99  Bolivia:1.32244 per 1,000 people 
#100  Costa Rica:1.30055 per 1,000 people 
#101  Armenia:1.23 per 1,000 people 
#102  Indonesia:1.18206 per 1,000 people 
#103  Tonga:1.16703 per 1,000 people 
#104  Zimbabwe:1.1593 per 1,000 people 
#105  Dominica:1.09809 per 1,000 people 
#106  Gabon:1.04347 per 1,000 people 
#107  Mauritania:1.01636 per 1,000 people 
#108  Morocco:1.01559 per 1,000 people 
#109  Peru:1.00959 per 1,000 people 
#110  El Salvador:0.984012 per 1,000 people 
#111  Namibia:0.957607 per 1,000 people 
#112  Kyrgyzstan:0.942344 per 1,000 people 
#113  India:0.933086 per 1,000 people 
#114  Grenada:0.880427 per 1,000 people 
#115  Albania:0.865871 per 1,000 people 
#116  Philippines:0.857065 per 1,000 people 
#117  Guatemala:0.840461 per 1,000 people 
#118  Samoa:0.820703 per 1,000 people 
#119  Djibouti:0.813924 per 1,000 people 
#120  Fiji:0.784571 per 1,000 people 
#121  Honduras:0.691699 per 1,000 people 
#122  Nicaragua:0.662342 per 1,000 people 
#123  Pakistan:0.652524 per 1,000 people 
#124  Tajikistan:0.621873 per 1,000 people 
#125  Paraguay:0.576386 per 1,000 people 
#126  Vietnam:0.568987 per 1,000 people 
#127  Sri Lanka:0.557299 per 1,000 people 
#128  Sao Tome and Principe:0.533589 per 1,000 people 
#129  Cape Verde:0.506427 per 1,000 people 
#130  Yemen:0.500203 per 1,000 people 
#131  Vanuatu:0.480671 per 1,000 people 
#132  Papua New Guinea:0.44101 per 1,000 people 
#133  Cote d'Ivoire:0.413002 per 1,000 people 
#134  Angola:0.410451 per 1,000 people 
#135  Nigeria:0.373901 per 1,000 people 
#136  Swaziland:0.340685 per 1,000 people 
#137  Senegal:0.335571 per 1,000 people 
#138  Solomon Islands:0.317267 per 1,000 people 
#139  Kenya:0.301241 per 1,000 people 
#140  Togo:0.297944 per 1,000 people 
#141  Kiribati:0.280332 per 1,000 people 
#142  Ghana:0.269835 per 1,000 people 
#143  Benin:0.216329 per 1,000 people 
#144  Bangladesh:0.206999 per 1,000 people 
#145  Guinea-Bissau:0.202548 per 1,000 people 
#146  Cameroon:0.20093 per 1,000 people 
#147  Burma:0.188857 per 1,000 people 
#148  Gambia, The:0.175737 per 1,000 people 
#149  Bhutan:0.174014 per 1,000 people 
#150  Haiti:0.17359 per 1,000 people 
#151  Zambia:0.168656 per 1,000 people 
#152  Liberia:0.14631 per 1,000 people 
#153  Sudan:0.145642 per 1,000 people 
#154  Guinea:0.141363 per 1,000 people 
#155  Madagascar:0.136768 per 1,000 people 
#156  Eritrea:0.133298 per 1,000 people 
#157  Comoros:0.132142 per 1,000 people 
#158  Nepal:0.116682 per 1,000 people 
#159  Lesotho:0.1032 per 1,000 people 
#160  Niger:0.0983228 per 1,000 people 
#161  Sierra Leone:0.0974945 per 1,000 people 
#162  Burkina Faso:0.0801141 per 1,000 people 
#163  Tanzania:0.0733069 per 1,000 people 
#164  Rwanda:0.0705841 per 1,000 people 
#165  Central African Republic:0.0674375 per 1,000 people 
#166  Laos:0.0663664 per 1,000 people 
#167  Mozambique:0.0625857 per 1,000 people 
#168  Malawi:0.0615645 per 1,000 people 
#169  Uganda:0.0528732 per 1,000 people 
#170  Ethiopia:0.0499446 per 1,000 people 
#171  Mali:0.0497854 per 1,000 people 
#172  Cambodia:0.0393077 per 1,000 people 
#173  Burundi:0.030789 per 1,000 people 
#174  Afghanistan:0.0305824 per 1,000 people 
#175  Chad:0.0134721 per 1,000 people 
#176  Congo, Democratic Republic of the:0.0123428 per 1,000 people 
Weighted average: 4.2 per 1,000 people  


DEFINITION: CO2: Total Emissions (excluding land-use) Units: thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.

SOURCE: World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute

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COMMENTARY     

levy (US)
3rd June 2008
Good info. Odd way of stating info. Why not just say 20 tons per person instead of 20,000 tons per 1,000 people?
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