Countries by fossil CO2 emissions per person, 2024

Qatar had the highest fossil CO2 emissions per person of 213 countries in 2024, at 41.27 tonnes of CO2 per person. Democratic Republic of the Congo had the lowest, at 0.05 tonnes of CO2 per person. The median was 3.2 tonnes of CO2 per person and the figure for the World was 4.73 tonnes of CO2 per person. Source: Global Carbon Project.

Highest41.27Qatar

Lowest0.05Democratic Republic of the Congo

Median3.2213 countries

World4.73History

Top 40 countries, 2024

tonnes of CO2 per person. Source: Global Carbon Project, Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset: fossil CO2 emissions per person, tonnes of CO2. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2024 tonnes of CO2 per person	Change on 2023
1	Qatar	41.27	+2.8%
2	Kuwait	26.25	+3.1%
3	Brunei	26.05	-4.4%
4	Bahrain	24.27	-1.8%
5	Trinidad and Tobago	22.93	-3%
6	Saudi Arabia	20.38	+0.1%
7	United Arab Emirates	20.13	+1.8%
8	New Caledonia	18.07	+3.3%
9	Sint Maarten	16.55	+2.4%
10	Oman	15.65	-1%
11	Australia	14.48	-0.4%
12	United States	14.2	-0.9%
13	Kazakhstan	13.94	-1%
14	Canada	13.42	-3.3%
15	Faroe Islands	13.09	+0.4%
16	Mongolia	12.86	-0.1%
17	Palau	12.78	+4.8%
18	Curaçao	12.34	+3.8%
19	Russia	12.29	+3.2%
20	Taiwan	11.3	-1.4%
21	South Korea	11.29	-0.9%
22	Greenland	11.08	+1.8%
23	Turkmenistan	10.81	-16.6%
24	Luxembourg	10.46	+1.7%
25	Anguilla	10.14	+2.5%
26	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	9.83	+4.8%
27	Iceland	9.67	+6.8%
28	Singapore	9.24	+4.8%
29	Libya	8.84	+0.6%
30	China	8.66	+1.2%
31	Iran	8.66	-0.7%
32	Aruba	8.52	+3.7%
33	Bermuda	8.51	+3.9%
34	Malaysia	8.16	+3.8%
35	Turks and Caicos Islands	8.14	+3.1%
36	Japan	7.77	-2.1%
37	Bahamas	7.65	+3.4%
38	Belgium	7.28	+0.7%
39	Antigua and Barbuda	7.09	+3.3%
40	Poland	7.08	-3.1%
41	Czechia	7.04	-8.5%
42	South Africa	6.87	-0.5%
43	Germany	6.77	-3.6%
44	Norway	6.67	-5.3%
45	Ireland	6.34	-1.9%
46	Netherlands	6.3	-2.6%
47	Serbia	6.24	-1.5%
48	New Zealand	6.23	+2.1%
49	Austria	6.18	-0.8%
50	Belarus	6.16	+0.8%
51	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.14	-1.6%
52	Estonia	6.11	-4.5%
53	Montserrat	6.06	+4.6%
54	Slovenia	6.02	+6.1%
55	Türkiye	5.87	+5.1%
56	Cook Islands	5.83	+8.3%
57	Israel	5.61	-6.3%
58	Saint Kitts and Nevis	5.55	+3.7%
59	Guyana	5.43	+2.4%
60	Cyprus	5.37	+0.6%
61	Greece	5.31	+4.6%
62	Finland	5.3	-6.6%
63	Slovakia	5.28	-5.3%
64	Andorra	5.18	+0.2%
65	Nauru	5.14	+3.9%
66	Italy	5.09	-3.1%
67	Iraq	5.07	+0.4%
68	Seychelles	5	-0.2%
69	Caribbean Netherlands	4.95	+1.2%
70	British Virgin Islands	4.88	+2.6%
71	Barbados	4.83	+3.6%
72	Croatia	4.76	+0.5%
73	Denmark	4.75	-2.1%
74	Suriname	4.71	+3.2%
75	Bulgaria	4.68	-7.8%
76	Spain	4.6	+2.3%
77	United Kingdom	4.53	+1%
78	Hong Kong	4.49	+1.5%
79	Lithuania	4.39	+0.1%
80	Maldives	4.37	+4.2%
81	Algeria	4.23	-3.6%
82	Niue	4.19	+4.5%
83	Hungary	4.14	-0.7%
84	Marshall Islands	4.11	+8.1%
85	Venezuela	4.09	-3.3%
86	Chile	3.98	+0.9%
87	France	3.97	-2.4%
88	Azerbaijan	3.85	-7%
89	Uzbekistan	3.83	+11.1%
90	Ukraine	3.76	+1.9%
91	Argentina	3.74	-4.4%
92	Thailand	3.74	+1.2%
93	Montenegro	3.72	-2%
94	Equatorial Guinea	3.7	-1%
95	Mauritius	3.68	+2.1%
96	Vietnam	3.67	+6.1%
97	North Macedonia	3.63	-9.4%
98	Romania	3.61	+1.6%
99	Switzerland	3.59	-0.3%
100	Sweden	3.59	+3.2%
101	Mexico	3.52	-0.3%
102	Latvia	3.45	-1.4%
103	Portugal	3.41	-5.5%
104	Liechtenstein	3.3	-0.4%
105	French Polynesia	3.27	+4.3%
106	Grenada	3.22	+3.7%
107	Malta	3.2	-3.4%
108	Laos	3.14	-0.4%
109	Georgia	3.09	-1.2%
110	Saint Lucia	2.99	+3.6%
111	Botswana	2.96	+1.3%
112	Jamaica	2.96	+4.1%
113	Dominican Republic	2.9	+3.2%
114	Indonesia	2.87	+5.7%
115	Panama	2.8	-3.8%
116	Wallis and Futuna	2.71	+5.4%
117	Lebanon	2.7	0%
118	Tunisia	2.66	+2.3%
119	Dominica	2.58	+4.3%
120	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2.54	+4.6%
121	Ecuador	2.54	+2.2%
122	Armenia	2.5	-1%
123	North Korea	2.36	+0.5%
124	Uruguay	2.35	+4.6%
125	Bolivia	2.31	+15%
126	Brazil	2.28	-0.6%
127	Cuba	2.23	+4.5%
128	Egypt	2.22	+1.5%
129	India	2.2	+3.3%
130	Saint Helena	2.18	+4.9%
131	Gabon	2.13	-0.7%
132	Bhutan	2.09	+1%
133	Peru	2.05	+5.2%
134	Jordan	2.01	-0.6%
135	Belize	1.91	+2.4%
136	Morocco	1.81	-0.8%
137	Moldova	1.76	+1%
138	Colombia	1.75	+1.9%
139	Costa Rica	1.71	+2.9%
140	Kyrgyzstan	1.64	+4%
141	Albania	1.59	+1.3%
142	Fiji	1.56	+4.1%
143	Philippines	1.51	+7.7%
144	Macao	1.47	+0.4%
145	Tonga	1.46	+5%
146	El Salvador	1.42	+3%
147	Republic of the Congo	1.4	+4.3%
148	Micronesia	1.33	+4.1%
149	Syria	1.29	-4.1%
150	Cambodia	1.24	+1%
151	Honduras	1.19	+1.9%
152	Tuvalu	1.19	+6.4%
153	Paraguay	1.15	+2.5%
154	Namibia	1.14	-1.5%
155	Cape Verde	1.13	+3.4%
156	Samoa	1.13	+3.9%
157	Lesotho	1.1	+2%
158	Guatemala	1.08	-0.8%
159	Tajikistan	1.01	+2.6%
160	Mauritania	1.01	+1%
161	Sri Lanka	0.9	+8%
162	Palestine	0.87	-1.1%
163	Eswatini	0.84	+0.5%
164	Zimbabwe	0.82	+0.1%
165	Nicaragua	0.81	+2.3%
166	Papua New Guinea	0.79	-1.9%
167	Senegal	0.76	-2.2%
168	Pakistan	0.72	-5.2%
169	Comoros	0.64	-0.2%
170	Nepal	0.63	+2.5%
171	Bangladesh	0.62	+2.4%
172	Ghana	0.61	+2.5%
173	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.6	-0.6%
174	Vanuatu	0.6	+2.2%
175	Angola	0.59	-0.1%
176	Nigeria	0.58	+2.8%
177	Myanmar	0.58	-1.3%
178	Zambia	0.57	-1%
179	Kiribati	0.54	+3%
180	Djibouti	0.48	-0.2%
181	Timor-Leste	0.48	+3.7%
182	Côte d’Ivoire	0.46	+3%
183	Benin	0.42	-0.2%
184	Kenya	0.38	-1.8%
185	Solomon Islands	0.36	+2.1%
186	Sudan	0.35	-0.4%
187	Cameroon	0.33	-3.2%
188	Tanzania	0.29	-4.2%
189	Gambia	0.29	+1.6%
190	Togo	0.29	+0.8%
191	Mali	0.29	+0.5%
192	Burkina Faso	0.28	+0.9%
193	Guinea	0.27	+1.4%
194	Afghanistan	0.25	+0.1%
195	Haiti	0.25	+2.5%
196	Yemen	0.25	-3.1%
197	Mozambique	0.25	-8%
198	Eritrea	0.21	-0.3%
199	Sierra Leone	0.17	+1.7%
200	Guinea-Bissau	0.16	+1.6%
201	Liberia	0.15	+0.8%
202	Rwanda	0.14	-1.3%
203	South Sudan	0.14	-2.2%
204	Madagascar	0.14	-0.6%
205	Chad	0.14	-5.4%
206	Ethiopia	0.14	-1.1%
207	Uganda	0.13	-1.2%
208	Niger	0.12	-2.1%
209	Malawi	0.09	-1%
210	Central African Republic	0.07	-2%
211	Somalia	0.07	-1.7%
212	Burundi	0.07	-0.8%
213	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.05	-2.8%

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Fossil CO2 emissions (fossil_co2_emissions) in tonnes of CO2 divided by the population, as published by the Global Carbon Project with the population series it ships with the dataset. Fossil CO2 covers the burning of coal, oil and gas, gas flaring, cement production and other industrial carbonate use. Emissions are counted in the country where they occur (territorial emissions). International aviation and shipping are left out of country figures and included in the World total. Land use change is not included.

Countries that refine oil or produce energy intensive goods for export, and small states with large ports or refineries, show high values that their residents' consumption alone would not cause. Each annual Global Carbon Budget release revises past years.

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Andrew, R. M. and Peters, G. P., The Global Carbon Project's fossil CO2 emissions dataset, Global Carbon Budget (Friedlingstein et al.). Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset: fossil CO2 emissions per person, tonnes of CO2. https://zenodo.org/records/17417124. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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