CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita, 2023

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.

Country/area	Per capita emissions tonnes per person • 2023	GDP per capita In constant international-$. Historical data – Maddison Project Database international-$ in 2011 prices • 2023	Population (historical) people • 2023	World regions according to OWID 2023
Afghanistan	0.27 t	$1,358	41,454,762	Asia
Aland Islands				Europe
Albania	1.83 t	$12,978	2,811,660	Europe
Algeria	3.86 t	$13,506	46,164,221	Africa
American Samoa			47,543	Oceania
Andorra	5.24 t		80,868	Europe
Angola	0.57 t	$6,119	36,749,907	Africa
Anguilla	10.01 t		14,435	North America
Antigua and Barbuda	6.91 t		93,333	North America
Argentina	4.30 t	$18,292	45,538,402	South America
Armenia	2.58 t	$13,838	2,943,395	Asia
Aruba	8.03 t		107,946	North America
Australia	14.48 t	$52,049	26,451,125	Oceania
Austria	6.42 t	$43,793	9,130,434	Europe
Austria-Hungary				Europe
Azerbaijan	4.26 t	$17,683	10,318,210	Asia
Bahamas	6.27 t		399,452	North America
Bahrain	23.27 t	$38,652	1,569,674	Asia
Bangladesh	0.66 t	$4,926	171,466,986	Asia
Barbados	4.22 t	$11,546	282,348	North America
Belarus	6.20 t	$18,700	9,115,680	Europe
Belgium	7.12 t	$41,872	11,712,894	Europe
Belize	1.62 t		411,115	North America
Benin	0.40 t	$2,477	14,111,035	Africa
Bermuda	8.07 t		64,721	North America
Bhutan	2.18 t		786,387	Asia
Bolivia	1.91 t	$6,481	12,244,161	South America
Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba	3.84 t		29,919	North America
Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.34 t	$12,143	3,185,071	Europe
Botswana	2.71 t	$16,352	2,480,242	Africa
Brazil	2.30 t	$14,640	211,140,731	South America
British Indian Ocean Territory				Asia
British Virgin Islands	4.75 t		39,008	North America
Brunei	25.64 t		458,959	Asia
Bulgaria	5.31 t	$20,592	6,795,804	Europe
Burkina Faso	0.27 t	$1,705	23,025,778	Africa
Burundi	0.05 t	$717	13,689,455	Africa
Cambodia	1.16 t	$3,944	17,423,881	Asia
Cameroon	0.35 t	$2,812	28,372,688	Africa
Canada	13.98 t	$45,530	39,299,099	North America
Cape Verde	1.02 t	$7,203	522,335	Africa
Cayman Islands			73,055	North America
Central African Republic	0.05 t	$596	5,152,417	Africa
Chad	0.16 t	$1,394	19,319,073	Africa
Chile	3.93 t	$22,741	19,658,834	South America
China	8.37 t	$19,238	1,422,584,937	Asia
Christmas Island				Asia
Cocos Islands				Asia
Colombia	2.01 t	$14,469	52,321,152	South America
Comoros	0.53 t	$1,900	850,390	Africa
Congo	1.24 t	$4,188	6,182,889	Africa
Cook Islands	5.11 t		14,243	Oceania
Costa Rica	1.62 t	$15,497	5,105,527	North America
Cote d'Ivoire	0.42 t	$4,012	31,165,651	Africa
Croatia	4.50 t	$26,987	3,896,024	Europe
Cuba	2.10 t	$7,649	11,019,931	North America
Curacao	10.91 t		185,437	North America
Cyprus	5.33 t	$31,523	1,344,979	Europe
Czechia	7.92 t	$32,247	10,809,722	Europe
Czechoslovakia		$30,641		Europe
Democratic Republic of Congo	0.04 t	$844	105,789,733	Africa
Democratic Republic of Vietnam				Asia
Denmark	4.58 t	$50,690	5,948,134	Europe
Djibouti	0.43 t	$3,623	1,152,951	Africa
Dominica	2.45 t	$8,880	66,531	North America
Dominican Republic	2.83 t	$17,714	11,331,268	North America
Duchy of Modena and Reggio				Europe
Duchy of Parma and Piacenza				Europe
East Germany				Europe
East Timor	0.46 t		1,384,292	Asia
Ecuador	2.40 t	$10,124	17,980,079	South America
Egypt	2.35 t	$13,205	114,535,772	Africa
El Salvador	1.30 t	$9,219	6,309,628	North America
Equatorial Guinea	3.32 t	$22,707	1,847,556	Africa
Eritrea	0.18 t		3,470,392	Africa
Estonia	7.33 t	$30,067	1,367,194	Europe
Eswatini	0.90 t	$8,522	1,230,508	Africa
Ethiopia	0.12 t	$2,289	128,691,696	Africa
Ethiopia (former)				Africa
Falkland Islands			3,498	South America
Faroe Islands	14.57 t		54,738	Europe
Federal Republic of Central America				North America
Fiji	1.24 t		924,150	Oceania
Finland	5.65 t	$40,701	5,601,185	Europe
France	4.10 t	$39,066	66,438,828	Europe
French Guiana			303,409	South America
French Polynesia	3.26 t		281,124	Oceania
Gabon	2.18 t	$15,721	2,484,790	Africa
Gambia	0.26 t	$2,011	2,697,848	Africa
Georgia	3.09 t	$14,360	3,807,494	Asia
Germany	7.05 t	$46,648	84,548,234	Europe
Ghana	0.58 t	$4,242	33,787,915	Africa
Gibraltar			38,493	Europe
Grand Duchy of Baden				Europe
Grand Duchy of Tuscany				Europe
Great Colombia				South America
Greece	5.39 t	$25,284	10,242,909	Europe
Greenland	10.66 t		55,951	North America
Grenada	2.90 t		117,093	North America
Guadeloupe			376,519	North America
Guam			166,523	Oceania
Guatemala	1.12 t	$7,969	18,124,842	North America
Guernsey			64,042	Europe
Guinea	0.28 t	$1,809	14,405,469	Africa
Guinea-Bissau	0.14 t	$1,625	2,153,344	Africa
Guyana	4.29 t		826,360	South America
Haiti	0.30 t	$1,546	11,637,402	North America
Honduras	1.04 t	$5,187	10,644,855	North America
Hong Kong	4.55 t	$48,289	7,442,738	Asia
Hungary	4.15 t	$29,452	9,686,463	Europe
Iceland	9.71 t	$42,146	387,559	Europe
India	2.13 t	$7,766	1,438,069,597	Asia
Indonesia	2.61 t	$12,802	281,190,068	Asia
Iran	9.03 t	$18,473	90,608,708	Asia
Iraq	3.91 t	$13,072	45,074,055	Asia
Ireland	6.63 t	$60,257	5,196,629	Europe
Isle of Man			84,180	Europe
Israel	6.43 t	$36,649	9,256,311	Asia
Italy	5.27 t	$36,224	59,499,452	Europe
Jamaica	2.69 t	$7,482	2,839,785	North America
Japan	7.95 t	$38,269	124,370,947	Asia
Jersey			103,679	Europe
Jordan	1.85 t	$9,151	11,439,219	Asia
Kazakhstan	12.55 t	$26,492	20,330,106	Asia
Kenya	0.39 t	$3,404	55,339,007	Africa
Kingdom of Bavaria				Europe
Kingdom of Sardinia				Europe
Kingdom of Saxony				Europe
Kingdom of Wurttemberg				Europe
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies				Europe
Kiribati	0.52 t		132,539	Oceania
Korea (former)				Asia
Kosovo	4.93 t		1,700,039	Europe
Kuwait	20.51 t	$71,534	4,838,780	Asia
Kyrgyzstan	1.44 t	$5,305	7,073,523	Asia
Laos	3.24 t	$7,168	7,665,002	Asia
Latvia	3.46 t	$27,220	1,882,400	Europe
Lebanon	3.37 t	$10,341	5,773,492	Asia
Lesotho	1.68 t	$2,313	2,311,476	Africa
Liberia	0.14 t	$811	5,493,034	Africa
Libya	8.35 t	$12,755	7,305,660	Africa
Liechtenstein	3.97 t		39,621	Europe
Lithuania	4.37 t	$30,863	2,854,105	Europe
Luxembourg	10.51 t	$55,485	665,101	Europe
Macao	1.48 t		713,916	Asia
Madagascar	0.14 t	$1,367	31,195,936	Africa
Malawi	0.08 t	$1,190	21,104,480	Africa
Malaysia	8.22 t	$26,629	35,126,295	Asia
Maldives	3.92 t		526,009	Asia
Mali	0.28 t	$1,652	23,769,129	Africa
Malta	3.42 t	$34,496	532,964	Europe
Marshall Islands	3.95 t		38,849	Oceania
Martinique			346,008	North America
Mauritania	0.88 t	$3,680	5,022,440	Africa
Mauritius	3.25 t	$20,643	1,273,590	Africa
Mayotte			316,028	Africa
Mexico	3.72 t	$16,235	129,739,764	North America
Micronesia (country)	1.33 t		112,646	Oceania
Moldova	1.94 t	$6,675	3,067,071	Europe
Monaco			38,978	Europe
Mongolia	13.66 t	$13,443	3,431,939	Asia
Montenegro	3.68 t	$20,942	633,557	Europe
Montserrat	5.01 t		4,440	North America
Morocco	1.82 t	$8,400	37,712,517	Africa
Mozambique	0.24 t	$1,088	33,635,165	Africa
Myanmar	0.56 t	$5,177	54,133,801	Asia
Namibia	1.41 t	$7,979	2,963,101	Africa
Nauru	4.83 t		11,900	Oceania
Nepal	0.56 t	$3,014	29,694,614	Asia
Netherlands	6.56 t	$49,670	18,092,525	Europe
Netherlands Antilles				North America
New Caledonia	17.48 t		289,880	Oceania
New Zealand	5.82 t	$38,250	5,172,839	Oceania
Nicaragua	0.82 t	$5,093	6,823,618	North America
Niger	0.10 t	$1,008	26,159,862	Africa
Nigeria	0.56 t	$5,070	227,882,949	Africa
Niue	4.16 t		1,841	Oceania
Norfolk Island				Oceania
North Korea	2.30 t	$1,569	26,418,196	Asia
North Macedonia	4.07 t	$14,051	1,831,800	Europe
Northern Mariana Islands			45,165	Oceania
Norway	7.05 t	$88,366	5,519,166	Europe
Oman	15.55 t	$47,989	5,049,268	Asia
Orange Free State				Africa
Pakistan	0.81 t	$5,532	247,504,504	Asia
Pakistan (former)				Asia
Palau	12.53 t		17,750	Oceania
Palestine	0.65 t	$4,775	5,409,201	Asia
Panama	3.14 t	$23,557	4,458,759	North America
Papua New Guinea	0.80 t		10,389,638	Oceania
Paraguay	1.19 t	$8,763	6,844,152	South America
Peru	1.65 t	$12,763	33,845,617	South America
Philippines	1.35 t	$8,371	114,891,200	Asia
Pitcairn				Oceania
Poland	7.46 t	$32,468	38,762,847	Europe
Portugal	3.57 t	$28,992	10,430,735	Europe
Puerto Rico		$35,281	3,242,023	North America
Qatar	38.84 t	$149,171	2,979,087	Asia
Republic of Vietnam				Asia
Reunion			874,883	Africa
Romania	3.57 t	$26,198	19,118,481	Europe
Russia	12.49 t	$25,437	145,440,504	Europe
Rwanda	0.11 t	$2,198	13,954,474	Africa
Saint Barthelemy			11,112	North America
Saint Helena	2.09 t		5,316	Africa
Saint Kitts and Nevis	4.99 t		46,783	North America
Saint Lucia	2.85 t	$10,452	179,293	North America
Saint Martin (French part)			27,545	North America
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	9.74 t		5,707	North America
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2.34 t		101,331	North America
Samoa	1.19 t		216,674	Oceania
San Marino			33,761	Europe
Sao Tome and Principe	0.72 t	$3,752	230,881	Africa
Saudi Arabia	22.13 t	$53,517	33,264,288	Asia
Senegal	0.66 t	$2,661	18,077,573	Africa
Serbia	6.25 t	$17,098	6,773,203	Europe
Serbia and Montenegro				Europe
Seychelles	4.31 t	$31,055	127,961	Africa
Sierra Leone	0.15 t	$1,690	8,460,523	Africa
Singapore	8.51 t	$80,320	5,789,091	Asia
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	16.20 t		42,775	North America
Slovakia	5.57 t	$27,519	5,518,057	Europe
Slovenia	5.35 t	$32,674	2,118,395	Europe
Solomon Islands	0.38 t		800,013	Oceania
Somalia	0.03 t		18,358,621	Africa
South Africa	6.36 t	$11,416	63,212,386	Africa
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands				South America
South Korea	11.16 t	$41,321	51,748,744	Asia
South Sudan	0.14 t		11,483,373	Africa
Spain	4.63 t	$34,123	47,911,583	Europe
Sri Lanka	0.88 t	$10,705	22,971,616	Asia
Sudan	0.40 t		50,042,799	Africa
Suriname	4.21 t		628,892	South America
Sweden	3.46 t	$47,126	10,551,493	Europe
Switzerland	3.69 t	$63,323	8,870,564	Europe
Syria	1.08 t	$2,495	23,594,622	Asia
Taiwan	11.20 t	$53,143	23,317,145	Asia
Tajikistan	0.87 t	$5,508	10,389,808	Asia
Tanzania	0.27 t	$3,057	66,617,607	Africa
Thailand	3.69 t	$16,421	71,702,438	Asia
Togo	0.28 t	$1,587	9,304,344	Africa
Tokelau			2,424	Oceania
Tonga	1.91 t		104,614	Oceania
Trinidad and Tobago	22.83 t	$25,773	1,502,936	North America
Tunisia	2.69 t	$10,914	12,200,434	Africa
Turkey	4.95 t	$27,362	87,270,503	Asia
Turkmenistan	8.60 t	$17,235	7,364,437	Asia
Turks and Caicos Islands	8.02 t		46,219	North America
Tuvalu	1.17 t		9,837	Oceania
USSR		$19,355		Europe
Uganda	0.12 t	$2,122	48,656,604	Africa
Ukraine	3.62 t	$7,749	37,732,832	Europe
United Arab Emirates	21.55 t	$77,204	10,642,089	Asia
United Kingdom	4.44 t	$38,407	68,682,965	Europe
United States	14.30 t	$58,487	343,477,332	North America
United States Virgin Islands			85,712	North America
Uruguay	2.32 t	$20,182	3,388,083	South America
Uzbekistan	3.50 t	$12,559	35,652,309	Asia
Vanuatu	0.71 t		320,422	Oceania
Vatican			501	Europe
Venezuela	3.52 t	$5,267	28,300,860	South America
Vietnam	3.34 t	$8,050	100,352,189	Asia
Wallis and Futuna	2.69 t		11,394	Oceania
West Germany				Europe
Western Sahara			579,735	Africa
Yemen	0.25 t	$1,959	39,390,800	Asia
Yemen Arab Republic				Asia
Yemen People's Republic				Asia
Yugoslavia		$19,352		Europe
Zambia	0.37 t	$3,342	20,723,968	Africa
Zimbabwe	0.68 t	$1,704	16,340,829	Africa
Other
Africa	0.96 t		1,480,770,740
Africa (UN)			1,480,770,527
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Americas (UN)			1,041,794,259
Asia	4.73 t		4,776,659,632
Asia (UN)			4,778,004,495
Asia (excl. China and India)	3.99 t		1,839,126,400
East Asia (MPD)		$21,729
Eastern Europe (MPD)		$20,656
Europe	6.69 t		746,948,103
Europe (UN)			745,602,869
Europe (excl. EU-27)	8.39 t
Europe (excl. EU-28)	9.58 t
Europe (excl. Russia)			609,583,296
European Union (27)	5.57 t		450,657,571
European Union (28)	5.42 t
Former Sudan		$2,405
High-income countries	9.96 t		1,259,131,468
Latin America (MPD)		$14,028
Latin America and the Caribbean (UN)			658,891,516
Low-income countries	0.27 t		736,466,460
Lower-middle-income countries	1.58 t		3,253,459,279
Middle East and North Africa (MPD)		$19,875
North America	10.13 t		608,770,557
North America (excl. USA)	4.64 t
Northern America (UN)			382,902,740
Oceania	9.50 t		45,563,133
Oceania (UN)			45,562,792
South America	2.56 t		433,024,230
South America (excl. Brazil)			224,571,280
South and South East Asia (MPD)		$8,377
Sub Saharan Africa (MPD)		$3,437
Svalbard and Jan Mayen			2,400
Upper-middle-income countries	6.15 t		2,839,926,083
Western Europe (MPD)		$41,323
Western offshoots (MPD)		$56,568
World	4.67 t	$16,677	8,091,734,935

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