CO₂ Emissions per Capita — World Ranking

Tonnes of carbon dioxide released per person per year, excluding land use — the per-person carbon footprint of a country.

The top 50 — CO₂ Emissions per Capita

Sorted with the highest value first (a lower value counts as better), data year 2023. Flags: flagcdn; every country name links to its full profile.

#	Country	Value
1	Palau	78.9 tonnes CO₂
2	Qatar	48.6 tonnes CO₂
3	Bahrain	24.5 tonnes CO₂
4	Kuwait	22.7 tonnes CO₂
5	Brunei	21.1 tonnes CO₂
6	Trinidad and Tobago	19.7 tonnes CO₂
7	Oman	19 tonnes CO₂
8	Saudi Arabia	18.9 tonnes CO₂
9	United Arab Emirates	18.4 tonnes CO₂
10	New Caledonia	16.8 tonnes CO₂
11	Gibraltar	16.4 tonnes CO₂
12	Canada	14.2 tonnes CO₂
13	Australia	14.2 tonnes CO₂
14	United States	13.7 tonnes CO₂
15	Russia	13.5 tonnes CO₂
16	Turkmenistan	12.9 tonnes CO₂
17	Kazakhstan	12.6 tonnes CO₂
18	South Korea	11.4 tonnes CO₂
19	Luxembourg	10.4 tonnes CO₂
20	Greenland	10.3 tonnes CO₂
21	Singapore	9.5 tonnes CO₂
22	China	9.2 tonnes CO₂
23	Iran	9 tonnes CO₂
24	Libya	8.7 tonnes CO₂
25	Estonia	8.4 tonnes CO₂
26	Iceland	8.3 tonnes CO₂
27	Japan	8.1 tonnes CO₂
28	Malaysia	8 tonnes CO₂
29	Czechia	7.9 tonnes CO₂
30	Mongolia	7.8 tonnes CO₂
31	Poland	7.6 tonnes CO₂
32	Norway	7.5 tonnes CO₂
33	Belgium	7.3 tonnes CO₂
34	Germany	7.1 tonnes CO₂
35	Seychelles	7 tonnes CO₂
36	Netherlands	6.9 tonnes CO₂
37	South Africa	6.8 tonnes CO₂
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.5 tonnes CO₂
39	Austria	6.4 tonnes CO₂
40	Ireland	6.2 tonnes CO₂
41	Israel	6.1 tonnes CO₂
42	New Zealand	6.1 tonnes CO₂
43	Slovenia	6 tonnes CO₂
44	Finland	5.9 tonnes CO₂
45	Belarus	5.9 tonnes CO₂
46	Slovakia	5.7 tonnes CO₂
47	Bulgaria	5.7 tonnes CO₂
48	Cyprus	5.4 tonnes CO₂
49	Türkiye	5.2 tonnes CO₂
50	Iraq	5.2 tonnes CO₂

Global distribution

Source: World Bank Open Data (indicator EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5, year 2023) — public data with no API key, licensed CC BY 4.0. The full profile of every country: Country Complex · live natural events: Disaster Complex.