CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita
This measures CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and industry only – land-use change is not included. GDP per capita is adjusted for inflation and differences inliving costs between countries.
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Related research and data
- Many countries have decoupled economic growth from CO2 emissions, even if we take offshored production into account
- The world’s energy problem
Charts
- Adjusted net savings per capita
- Annual CO₂ emissions
- Annual CO₂ emissions by world region
- Annual CO₂ emissions from cement
- Annual CO₂ emissions from coal
- Annual CO₂ emissions from deforestation by product
- Annual CO₂ emissions from deforestation for food production
- Annual CO₂ emissions from flaring
- Annual CO₂ emissions from gas
- Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change
- Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change per capita
- Annual CO₂ emissions from oil
- Annual CO₂ emissions from other industry
- Annual CO₂ emissions including land-use change
- Annual change in GDP and CO₂ emissions
- Annual change in GDP, population and CO₂ emissions
- Annual greenhouse gas emissions by world region
- Annual percentage change in CO₂ emissions
- Annual temperature anomalies relative to the pre-industrial period
- Are consumption-based CO₂ per capita emissions above or below the global average?
- Are per capita CO₂ emissions above or below the global average?
- Aviation's share of global CO₂ emissions
- CO₂ emissions by fuel or industry
- CO₂ emissions by fuel or industry type
- CO₂ emissions by sector
- CO₂ emissions embedded in trade
- CO₂ emissions from aviation
- CO₂ emissions from domestic air travel
- CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and land-use changeStacked area chart
- CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels and land-use changeLine chart
- CO₂ emissions from international aviation
- CO₂ emissions from transport
- CO₂ emissions per capita
- CO₂ emissions per capita vs. fossil fuel consumption per capita
- CO₂ emissions per capita vs. share of electricity generation from renewables
- CO₂ reductions needed to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C
- CO₂ reductions needed to keep global temperature rise below 2°C
- Carbon dioxide emissions by income level
- Carbon dioxide emissions factors
- Carbon emission intensity vs. GDP per capita
- Carbon footprint of travel per kilometer
- Carbon intensity of energy production
- Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita
- Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP
- Carbon opportunity costs per kilogram of food
- Change in CO₂ emissions and GDP
- Change in per capita CO₂ emissions and GDPAdjusted for consumption
- Change in per capita CO₂ emissions and GDPProduction-based
- Consumption-based CO₂ emissions
- Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita
- Consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita vs. Human Development Index
- Consumption-based carbon intensity
- Consumption-based vs. territorial CO₂ emissions per capita
- Contribution to global mean surface temperature rise
- Contribution to global mean surface temperature rise by gas
- Contribution to global mean surface temperature rise from agriculture and land use
- Contribution to global mean surface temperature rise from fossil sources
- Contribution to value added vs. share of CO₂ emissions in China
- Contribution to value added vs. share of CO₂ emissions in Germany
- Contribution to value added vs. share of CO₂ emissions in USA
- Countries using the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions by source
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions by world region
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions from gas
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions from land-use change
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions from other industry
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions including land-use change
- Emissions-weighted carbon price
- Emissions-weighted carbon price in emissions trading systems
- Energy use per capita vs. CO₂ emissions per capita
- Export of environmentally sound technologies
- Food: emissions from production and the supply chain
- Food: greenhouse gas emissions across the supply chain
- Global carbon emissions from heating and cooling
- Global emissions from food by life-cycle stage
- Global warming contributions by gas and source
- Global warming contributions from fossil fuels and land use
- Global warming potential of greenhouse gases relative to CO2
- Global warming: Contributions to the change in global mean surface temperature
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Greenhouse gas emissions by gas
- Greenhouse gas emissions by sectorLines
- Greenhouse gas emissions by sectorStacked areas
- Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems
- Greenhouse gas emissions from plastic by life-cycle stage
- Greenhouse gas emissions from plastics
- Greenhouse gas emissions per 100 grams of protein
- Greenhouse gas emissions per 1000 kilocalories
- Greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of food product
- Greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of seafood
- How have things changed?
- Hypothetical number of deaths from energy production
- Import of environmentally sound technologies
- Imported or exported CO₂ emissions per capita
- Kaya identity: drivers of CO₂ emissions
- Level of implementation of sustainable procurement policies and plans
- Life expectancy at birth vs. CO₂ emissions per capita
- Life satisfaction vs. CO₂ emissions per capita
- Meat supply vs. GDP per capita
- Mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
- Methane concentration in the atmosphere
- Methane emissions
- Methane emissions by sector
- Methane emissions from agriculture
- Monthly CO₂ emissions from all commercial passenger flights
- Monthly CO₂ emissions from domestic and international commercial passenger flights
- Nitrous oxide emissions
- Nitrous oxide emissions by sector
- Nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture
- Number of companies publishing sustainability reports that meet the minimum reporting requirements
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from domestic commercial passenger flights
- Per capita CO₂ emissions
- Per capita CO₂ emissions by fuel type
- Per capita CO₂ emissions by region
- Per capita CO₂ emissions by sector
- Per capita CO₂ emissions by source
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from aviation
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from cement
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from coal
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from commercial aviation, tourism-adjusted
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from deforestation for food production
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from domestic aviation
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from domestic aviation vs. GDP per capita
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from domestic aviation vs. land area
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from flaring
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from gas
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from international aviation
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from international commercial passenger flights, tourism-adjustedOECD & UNWTO
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from international passenger flights, tourism-adjustedGraver & World Bank
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from oil
- Per capita CO₂ emissions from transport
- Per capita CO₂ emissions including land-use change
- Per capita CO₂ emissions vs. per capita energy consumption
- Per capita GHG emissions vs. per capita CO₂ emissionsLand use not included
- Per capita GHG emissions vs. per capita CO₂ emissionsLand use included
- Per capita consumption-based CO₂ emissions
- Per capita greenhouse gas emissions
- Per capita greenhouse gas emissions by sector
- Per capita greenhouse gas emissions, excluding land use and forestry
- Per capita methane emissions
- Per capita methane emissions by sector
- Per capita nitrous oxide emissions
- Per capita nitrous oxide emissions by sector
- Per capita nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture
- Pig production: Greenhouse gas emissions vs. cost to animal welfare
- Share of CO₂ emissions covered by a carbon price
- Share of CO₂ emissions embedded in trade
- Share of children who are stunted vs. CO₂ emissions per capita
- Share of cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil
- Share of global CO₂ consumption-based emissions
- Share of global CO₂ emissions
- Share of global CO₂ emissions and population
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from aviation
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from cement
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from coal
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from domestic air travel
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from flaring
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from gas
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from international aviation
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from land-use change
- Share of global CO₂ emissions from oil
- Share of global CO₂ emissions including land-use change
- Share of global CO₂ emissions vs. share of population
- Share of global annual CO₂ emissions from other industry
- Share of global consumption-based CO₂ emissions and population
- Share of global consumption-based CO₂ emissions vs. share of population
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions from flaring
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions from gas
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions from land-use change
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions from other industry
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions including land-use change
- Share of global greenhouse gas emissions
- Share of global greenhouse gas emissions from food
- Share of global methane emissions
- Share of global nitrous oxide emissions
- Share of national greenhouse gas emissions that come from food
- Share of required information submitted to international environmental agreements on hazardous waste and other chemicals
- Share that think people in their country should act to tackle climate change
- Status of net-zero carbon emissions targets
- Territorial and consumption-based CO₂ emissions
- Territorial vs. consumption-based CO₂ emissions per capita
- Total greenhouse gas emissions per capita
- Total greenhouse gas emissions, excluding land use and forestry
- Transport's share of global greenhouse gas emissions from food
- Value added growth vs. CO₂ emissions growth in China
- Value added growth vs. CO₂ emissions growth in Germany
- Value added growth vs. CO₂ emissions growth in the USA
- Which countries have a carbon emissions trading system?
- Which countries have a carbon tax?
- Which countries have set a net-zero emissions target?
- Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions