# Countries by fossil CO2 emissions, 2024

All 215 values come from Global Carbon Project for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `fossil_co2_emissions`
- Unit: million tonnes of CO2
- Definition: Carbon dioxide emitted from fossil sources in the year, in million tonnes of CO2, as estimated by the Global Carbon Project for the Global Carbon Budget. 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.
- Source: Global Carbon Project, Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset: total fossil CO2 emissions, million tonnes of CO2 (https://zenodo.org/records/17417124)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/global-carbon-project
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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: total fossil CO2 emissions, million tonnes of CO2. https://zenodo.org/records/17417124. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/fossil-co2-emissions/countries

| Rank | Place | million tonnes of CO2 |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 12,289 |
| 2 | United States | 4,904.1 |
| 3 | India | 3,193.5 |
| 4 | Russia | 1,780.5 |
| 5 | Japan | 961.9 |
| 6 | Indonesia | 812.2 |
| 7 | Iran | 792.6 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 692.1 |
| 9 | South Korea | 583.7 |
| 10 | Germany | 572.3 |
| 11 | Canada | 533.3 |
| 12 | Türkiye | 513 |
| 13 | Brazil | 483 |
| 14 | Mexico | 461 |
| 15 | South Africa | 439.8 |
| 16 | Australia | 386.7 |
| 17 | Vietnam | 370.9 |
| 18 | United Kingdom | 312.9 |
| 19 | Italy | 301.9 |
| 20 | Malaysia | 290.2 |
| 21 | Kazakhstan | 287 |
| 22 | Poland | 272.9 |
| 23 | Thailand | 267.8 |
| 24 | France | 264.2 |
| 25 | Taiwan | 262.3 |
| 26 | Egypt | 258.4 |
| 27 | Iraq | 233.6 |
| 28 | United Arab Emirates | 222 |
| 29 | Spain | 220.3 |
| 30 | Algeria | 198.2 |
| 31 | Pakistan | 179.8 |
| 32 | Philippines | 174.9 |
| 33 | Argentina | 171.1 |
| 34 | Ukraine | 142.5 |
| 35 | Uzbekistan | 139.2 |
| 36 | Nigeria | 135.8 |
| 37 | Kuwait | 129.5 |
| 38 | Qatar | 125.8 |
| 39 | Venezuela | 116 |
| 40 | Netherlands | 114.8 |
| 41 | Bangladesh | 108.3 |
| 42 | Colombia | 92.7 |
| 43 | Belgium | 85.5 |
| 44 | Oman | 82.7 |
| 45 | Turkmenistan | 81 |
| 46 | Chile | 78.7 |
| 47 | Czechia | 75.6 |
| 48 | Peru | 70.2 |
| 49 | Morocco | 69.1 |
| 50 | Romania | 68.6 |
| 51 | Libya | 65.3 |
| 52 | North Korea | 62.6 |
| 53 | Austria | 56.4 |
| 54 | Belarus | 55.8 |
| 55 | Singapore | 53.9 |
| 56 | Greece | 53.4 |
| 57 | Israel | 52.6 |
| 58 | Ecuador | 46 |
| 59 | Mongolia | 44.7 |
| 60 | Serbia | 42 |
| 61 | Hungary | 40 |
| 62 | Azerbaijan | 39.8 |
| 63 | Bahrain | 39 |
| 64 | Sweden | 38.1 |
| 65 | Norway | 37.2 |
| 66 | Portugal | 35.5 |
| 67 | Trinidad and Tobago | 34.6 |
| 68 | Hong Kong | 33.3 |
| 69 | Ireland | 33.3 |
| 70 | Dominican Republic | 33.1 |
| 71 | Tunisia | 32.7 |
| 72 | New Zealand | 32.5 |
| 73 | Switzerland | 32.1 |
| 74 | Syria | 31.8 |
| 75 | Bulgaria | 31.6 |
| 76 | Myanmar | 31.6 |
| 77 | Finland | 29.8 |
| 78 | Slovakia | 29.1 |
| 79 | Bolivia | 28.7 |
| 80 | Denmark | 28.4 |
| 81 | Cuba | 24.4 |
| 82 | Laos | 24.4 |
| 83 | Jordan | 23.2 |
| 84 | Angola | 22.3 |
| 85 | Cambodia | 21.9 |
| 86 | Kenya | 21.2 |
| 87 | Ghana | 21 |
| 88 | Sri Lanka | 20.8 |
| 89 | Tanzania | 20 |
| 90 | Guatemala | 19.9 |
| 91 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 19.4 |
| 92 | Nepal | 18.8 |
| 93 | Croatia | 18.5 |
| 94 | Ethiopia | 17.8 |
| 95 | Sudan | 17.8 |
| 96 | Lebanon | 15.6 |
| 97 | Côte d’Ivoire | 14.8 |
| 98 | Senegal | 14.1 |
| 99 | Zimbabwe | 13.7 |
| 100 | Honduras | 12.9 |
| 101 | Slovenia | 12.8 |
| 102 | Panama | 12.7 |
| 103 | Lithuania | 12.5 |
| 104 | Brunei | 12.1 |
| 105 | Zambia | 12 |
| 106 | Georgia | 11.8 |
| 107 | Kyrgyzstan | 11.8 |
| 108 | Afghanistan | 10.8 |
| 109 | Tajikistan | 10.7 |
| 110 | Yemen | 10.1 |
| 111 | Cameroon | 9.6 |
| 112 | El Salvador | 9 |
| 113 | Republic of the Congo | 8.8 |
| 114 | Costa Rica | 8.8 |
| 115 | Mozambique | 8.6 |
| 116 | Jamaica | 8.4 |
| 117 | Papua New Guinea | 8.3 |
| 118 | Estonia | 8.3 |
| 119 | Uruguay | 8 |
| 120 | Paraguay | 7.9 |
| 121 | Botswana | 7.5 |
| 122 | Armenia | 7.4 |
| 123 | Cyprus | 7.3 |
| 124 | Luxembourg | 7 |
| 125 | Equatorial Guinea | 7 |
| 126 | Mali | 7 |
| 127 | North Macedonia | 6.6 |
| 128 | Burkina Faso | 6.5 |
| 129 | Latvia | 6.5 |
| 130 | Uganda | 6.3 |
| 131 | Benin | 6.1 |
| 132 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 5.9 |
| 133 | Nicaragua | 5.6 |
| 134 | Gabon | 5.4 |
| 135 | Moldova | 5.3 |
| 136 | New Caledonia | 5.3 |
| 137 | Mauritania | 5.2 |
| 138 | Palestine | 4.8 |
| 139 | Mauritius | 4.7 |
| 140 | Madagascar | 4.5 |
| 141 | Guyana | 4.5 |
| 142 | Albania | 4.4 |
| 143 | Guinea | 4 |
| 144 | Iceland | 3.8 |
| 145 | Namibia | 3.5 |
| 146 | Niger | 3.2 |
| 147 | Bahamas | 3.1 |
| 148 | Suriname | 3 |
| 149 | Haiti | 3 |
| 150 | Chad | 2.8 |
| 151 | Togo | 2.8 |
| 152 | Lesotho | 2.6 |
| 153 | Montenegro | 2.4 |
| 154 | Maldives | 2.3 |
| 155 | Curaçao | 2.3 |
| 156 | Rwanda | 2 |
| 157 | Malawi | 1.9 |
| 158 | Malta | 1.7 |
| 159 | South Sudan | 1.7 |
| 160 | Bhutan | 1.7 |
| 161 | Fiji | 1.4 |
| 162 | Sierra Leone | 1.4 |
| 163 | Barbados | 1.4 |
| 164 | Somalia | 1.3 |
| 165 | Macao | 1.1 |
| 166 | Eswatini | 1 |
| 167 | French Polynesia | 0.9 |
| 168 | Aruba | 0.9 |
| 169 | Burundi | 0.9 |
| 170 | Liberia | 0.9 |
| 171 | Gambia | 0.8 |
| 172 | Belize | 0.8 |
| 173 | Eritrea | 0.7 |
| 174 | Faroe Islands | 0.7 |
| 175 | Sint Maarten | 0.7 |
| 176 | Timor-Leste | 0.7 |
| 177 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.7 |
| 178 | Seychelles | 0.7 |
| 179 | Greenland | 0.6 |
| 180 | Cape Verde | 0.6 |
| 181 | Djibouti | 0.6 |
| 182 | Comoros | 0.6 |
| 183 | Bermuda | 0.6 |
| 184 | Saint Lucia | 0.5 |
| 185 | Andorra | 0.4 |
| 186 | Central African Republic | 0.4 |
| 187 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 0.4 |
| 188 | Grenada | 0.4 |
| 189 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.3 |
| 190 | Solomon Islands | 0.3 |
| 191 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.3 |
| 192 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.3 |
| 193 | Samoa | 0.2 |
| 194 | Palau | 0.2 |
| 195 | Vanuatu | 0.2 |
| 196 | British Virgin Islands | 0.2 |
| 197 | Dominica | 0.2 |
| 198 | Marshall Islands | 0.2 |
| 199 | Tonga | 0.2 |
| 200 | Caribbean Netherlands | 0.2 |
| 201 | Micronesia | 0.2 |
| 202 | Anguilla | 0.1 |
| 203 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 0.1 |
| 204 | Liechtenstein | 0.1 |
| 205 | Cook Islands | 0.1 |
| 206 | Kiribati | 0.1 |
| 207 | Nauru | 0.1 |
| 208 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 0.1 |
| 209 | Wallis and Futuna | 0 |
| 210 | Montserrat | 0 |
| 211 | Tuvalu | 0 |
| 212 | Saint Helena | 0 |
| 213 | Niue | 0 |
| 214 | Antarctica | 0 |
| 214 | Christmas Island | 0 |