Countries by CO2 emissions from energy consumption

China had the highest CO2 emissions from energy consumption of 217 countries in 2016, at 10,261.6 million tonnes of CO2. Tuvalu had the lowest, at 0 million tonnes of CO2. The median was 8.9 million tonnes of CO2. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest10,261.6China

Lowest0Tuvalu

Median8.9217 countries

Top 40 countries, 2016

million tonnes of CO2. Source: EIA, International Energy Statistics: CO2 emissions from the consumption of energy, million metric tonnes (series INTL.4008-8-MMTCD.A) via Data Commons. Retrieved 2026-10-11.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2016 million tonnes of CO2	Change on 2015
1	China	10,261.6	-1.6%
2	United States	5,169	-1.8%
3	India	2,211.6	+3.1%
4	Russia	1,675.9	-0.8%
5	Japan	1,204.4	-0.9%
6	Germany	788.9	+0.1%
7	South Korea	682.9	+3.1%
8	Iran	590.3	-3.7%
9	Saudi Arabia	589.4	-5.1%
10	Canada	574.1	-3.1%
11	South Africa	471	-0.6%
12	Mexico	466.9	+0.5%
13	Brazil	466.8	-6.7%
14	Indonesia	465.4	+1%
15	United Kingdom	428.2	-4.9%
16	Australia	393.9	+3.1%
17	Türkiye	372.7	+6.1%
18	France	349.9	+0.9%
19	Italy	343.9	-1.4%
20	Poland	310.2	+1.8%
21	Thailand	294.2	-0.5%
22	United Arab Emirates	286.3	+1.2%
23	Spain	285.1	+0.4%
24	Taiwan	281.2	+2.9%
25	Kazakhstan	267	+0.7%
26	Singapore	232	+6.4%
27	Egypt	226	-0.5%
28	Netherlands	225.4	-1.8%
29	Malaysia	217.5	+0.5%
30	Argentina	216.5	-0.4%
31	Vietnam	214.9	+11.1%
32	Ukraine	210.4	-1%
33	Pakistan	182.7	+11.3%
34	Venezuela	143.7	-1.7%
35	Algeria	137.2	-1.1%
36	Iraq	122.2	+24.9%
37	Belgium	121.3	+1.2%
38	Philippines	107.5	+2.7%
39	Czechia	105.1	+1.5%
40	Qatar	103.9	-10.9%
41	Nigeria	102.1	+2.6%
42	Turkmenistan	98.2	-0.1%
43	Uzbekistan	97	-11%
44	Kuwait	96.9	-2.4%
45	Hong Kong	95.4	+2.1%
46	Chile	83.8	+4.2%
47	Bangladesh	82.8	+6.4%
48	Colombia	78	+3.6%
49	Greece	70.1	-4.6%
50	Romania	68.8	-1.5%
51	Israel	68.1	-1.3%
52	Oman	66.1	-4.3%
53	Austria	63.8	+0.9%
54	Morocco	54.9	-1%
55	Peru	53.3	+6.6%
56	Belarus	52.9	-0.4%
57	Portugal	52.3	-1.8%
58	Sweden	50.4	+3.2%
59	Trinidad and Tobago	49	-9.7%
60	Serbia	46.5	+2.2%
61	Hungary	46.2	+0.8%
62	Finland	45.3	+4.4%
63	Norway	42	-2.6%
64	Bulgaria	41.7	-7.2%
65	Switzerland	40.2	+1.7%
66	Bahrain	39.2	+0.9%
67	Libya	38.6	-4.6%
68	New Zealand	38.3	+1.5%
69	Denmark	38.3	+4.1%
70	Ecuador	36.8	-5%
71	Ireland	35.9	+5%
72	North Korea	35	-1.8%
73	Azerbaijan	33.8	-1.3%
74	Slovakia	33	+0.2%
75	Syria	25.7	-3.7%
76	Lebanon	25.4	+3.6%
77	Panama	24.6	+6.5%
78	Jordan	24.2	+0.8%
79	Dominican Republic	23.8	+6.2%
80	Sri Lanka	23.3	+12%
81	Cuba	23.1	-23.2%
82	Tunisia	22.8	-1.2%
83	Myanmar	22.8	-8.3%
84	Angola	21.8	-4.9%
85	Puerto Rico	20.7	-7.3%
86	Laos	18.8	+101.1%
87	Kenya	18.7	+7%
88	Sudan	18.5	+10.8%
89	Mongolia	17.7	+5.7%
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.5	+3.3%
91	Bolivia	17.3	+8.3%
92	Guatemala	17.1	+8.2%
93	Croatia	16.4	+2.6%
94	Ghana	16	+12%
95	Slovenia	13.7	+7.2%
96	Lithuania	13.5	+0.4%
97	Ethiopia	13.2	+14.8%
98	Gibraltar	12.8	+2%
99	Tanzania	11.5	+5.9%
100	Côte d’Ivoire	11.3	+10.2%
101	Zimbabwe	10.4	-11.9%
102	Luxembourg	10.2	-2%
103	Georgia	10.1	+5.3%
104	Mozambique	9.9	+27%
105	Brunei	9.7	+4.9%
106	Yemen	9.7	-19.1%
107	Kyrgyzstan	9.4	-1.6%
108	Cambodia	9.3	+31.8%
109	Jamaica	8.9	+4.4%
110	Honduras	8.8	-5.8%
111	Senegal	8.7	-4.6%
112	Latvia	8.1	+3%
113	Cyprus	8	+8.7%
114	Uruguay	7.9	-2%
115	Costa Rica	7.7	+8.1%
116	Paraguay	7.7	+16.1%
117	Moldova	7.5	-0.3%
118	Malta	7.5	+6.4%
119	El Salvador	6.9	+0.6%
120	Cameroon	6.9	-4.9%
121	Botswana	6.8	+13%
122	North Macedonia	6.7	-2%
123	Benin	6.5	+20.9%
124	Nepal	6.4	+59.4%
125	Papua New Guinea	6.2	+7.2%
126	Mauritius	6	+2.9%
127	Afghanistan	5.8	-10.3%
128	New Caledonia	5.6	+10.3%
129	Tajikistan	5.5	+13.9%
130	Armenia	5.4	+7.2%
131	Equatorial Guinea	5.3	+73.9%
132	Estonia	5.3	+2.2%
133	Nicaragua	5.2	-0.1%
134	Republic of the Congo	5.2	-3.9%
135	Uganda	4.9	+4.8%
136	Mali	4.5	+41.2%
137	Zambia	4.2	+7.3%
138	Albania	4.1	+5.1%
139	Gabon	4	+0.3%
140	Namibia	4	-0.7%
141	Madagascar	3.9	+6.1%
142	Burkina Faso	3.4	-7.7%
143	Haiti	3.4	+1.2%
144	Iceland	3.3	+11.4%
145	Palestine	3.3	+5.9%
146	Guinea	3.1	+11.5%
147	Bahamas	3.1	+4.8%
148	Mauritania	2.5	-6.9%
149	U.S. Virgin Islands	2.4	-17%
150	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2.4	-24.3%
151	Guyana	2.4	+12.5%
152	Niger	2.4	-5.6%
153	Montenegro	2.2	-9.3%
154	Suriname	2	-7.7%
155	Macao	2	-0.8%
156	Togo	2	-23.9%
157	Barbados	1.7	+1.6%
158	Maldives	1.7	+5.7%
159	Guam	1.6	-11.6%
160	Chad	1.5	+59.5%
161	Fiji	1.4	-4.7%
162	Liberia	1.4	+15.2%
163	Seychelles	1.3	+11.3%
164	Aruba	1.2	-1.6%
165	Malawi	1.2	+13.8%
166	Eswatini	1.1	+8.7%
167	Rwanda	1	+5.2%
168	French Polynesia	1	-1.7%
169	Sierra Leone	1	+3.8%
170	Cape Verde	1	+5%
171	Somalia	0.9	+1.8%
172	Bermuda	0.8	+27.3%
173	Antigua and Barbuda	0.8	+1.5%
174	Faroe Islands	0.7	+0.8%
175	Djibouti	0.7	-9.2%
176	Bhutan	0.7	+18.2%
177	Lesotho	0.7	+8.4%
178	Eritrea	0.6	+6.3%
179	Cayman Islands	0.6	-1.6%
180	Greenland	0.6	+1%
181	Gambia	0.6	+0.8%
182	Belize	0.6	-1.1%
183	Timor-Leste	0.5	-2.3%
184	Saint Lucia	0.5	+1.1%
185	Burundi	0.4	+10.5%
186	Guinea-Bissau	0.4	+4.1%
187	American Samoa	0.4	0%
188	Samoa	0.3	+5.6%
189	Solomon Islands	0.3	-4.1%
190	Grenada	0.3	+2.9%
191	Western Sahara	0.3	-0.2%
192	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.3	+2.7%
193	Central African Republic	0.3	-38.4%
194	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.2	+0.2%
195	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2	+3.4%
196	Comoros	0.2	+17.4%
197	Dominica	0.2	+0.6%
198	British Virgin Islands	0.2	+1.3%
199	Micronesia	0.2	+2.8%
200	Vanuatu	0.2	+2%
201	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.2	+3.9%
202	Tonga	0.1	+5.9%
203	Cook Islands	0.1	+3.5%
204	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0.1	+1.8%
205	Nauru	0.1	+9.6%
206	Kiribati	0.1	+6.9%
207	Falkland Islands	0	+3.9%
208	Montserrat	0	-42.9%
209	Antarctica	0	-0.1%
210	Saint Helena	0	+0.6%
211	Niue	0	-2.9%
212	French Guiana	0	n/a
212	Guadeloupe	0	n/a
212	Martinique	0	n/a
212	Northern Mariana Islands	0	n/a
212	Réunion	0	n/a
212	Tuvalu	0	n/a

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About this ranking

Carbon dioxide emitted by burning coal, natural gas and petroleum products for energy in the year, in million metric tonnes, as estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration in its International Energy Statistics.

Excludes industrial processes such as cement, land use and other greenhouse gases, so it is lower than total greenhouse gas inventories.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration. International Energy Statistics: CO2 emissions from the consumption of energy, million metric tonnes (series INTL.4008-8-MMTCD.A). Retrieved through Data Commons (datacommons.org). https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world. Retrieved 2026-10-11.

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Which country has the highest CO2 emissions from energy consumption?

China, with 10,261.6 million tonnes of CO2 in 2016, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Which country has the lowest CO2 emissions from energy consumption?

Tuvalu, with 0 million tonnes of CO2 in 2016.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics: CO2 emissions from the consumption of energy, million metric tonnes (series INTL.4008-8-MMTCD.A). Retrieved 2026-10-11.

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