🏭 CO2 emissions by country

Name: CO2 emissions by country
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166 countries ranked · World Bank · 2024

Which country emits the most CO2?

The biggest CO2 emitters in the world: 1. China (13,125 Mt), 2. United States (4,632 Mt), 3. India (3,154 Mt).

The middle of the table sits at 21.6 Mt (Kenya, no. 83 of 166), which is the figure to measure the top against.

The top 10

🇨🇳China 13,125 Mt
🇺🇸United States 4,632 Mt
🇮🇳India 3,154 Mt
🇷🇺Russia 2,009 Mt
🇯🇵Japan 972 Mt
🇮🇷Iran 829 Mt
🇮🇩Indonesia 812 Mt
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia 653 Mt
🇰🇷South Korea 588 Mt
🇩🇪Germany 580 Mt

Which country emits the least CO2?

The smallest CO2 emitters in this table, tied: Vanuatu, Guinea-Bissau and Central African Republic, all at 0.3 Mt.

The same ranking, as a map

Hover or tap any country for its value. Tap a legend colour to isolate a band.

CO₂ emissions, 166 countries, shaded by rank. Source: World Bank · data 2024. Projection: Equal Earth, so every country's area is honestly proportioned.

The full ranking of all 166 countries

CO₂ emissions · 2024
#	Country	CO₂ emissions
1	🇨🇳China	13,125 Mt
2	🇺🇸United States	4,632 Mt
3	🇮🇳India	3,154 Mt
4	🇷🇺Russia	2,009 Mt
5	🇯🇵Japan	972 Mt
6	🇮🇷Iran	829 Mt
7	🇮🇩Indonesia	812 Mt
8	🇸🇦Saudi Arabia	653 Mt
9	🇰🇷South Korea	588 Mt
10	🇩🇪Germany	580 Mt
11	🇨🇦Canada	578 Mt
12	🇧🇷Brazil	491 Mt
13	🇲🇽Mexico	476 Mt
14	🇹🇷Turkey	460 Mt
15	🇿🇦South Africa	440 Mt
16	🇻🇳Vietnam	431 Mt
17	🇦🇺Australia	383 Mt
18	🇮🇹Italy	299 Mt
19	🇲🇾Malaysia	296 Mt
20	🇬🇧United Kingdom	292 Mt
21	🇪🇬Egypt	292 Mt
22	🇹🇭Thailand	284 Mt
23	🇵🇱Poland	276 Mt
24	🇫🇷France	274 Mt
25	🇰🇿Kazakhstan	259 Mt
26	🇮🇶Iraq	239 Mt
27	🇪🇸Spain	220 Mt
28	🇵🇰Pakistan	204 Mt
29	🇦🇪United Arab Emirates	201 Mt
30	🇩🇿Algeria	186 Mt
31	🇦🇷Argentina	183 Mt
32	🇵🇭Philippines	174 Mt
33	🇺🇿Uzbekistan	149 Mt
34	🇶🇦Qatar	135 Mt
35	🇳🇬Nigeria	132 Mt
36	🇧🇩Bangladesh	124 Mt
37	🇳🇱Netherlands	119 Mt
38	🇺🇦Ukraine	118 Mt
39	🇰🇼Kuwait	116 Mt
40	🇴🇲Oman	98.5 Mt
41	🇻🇪Venezuela	96.4 Mt
42	🇨🇴Colombia	95.1 Mt
43	🇧🇪Belgium	86.7 Mt
44	🇹🇲Turkmenistan	81.4 Mt
45	🇨🇱Chile	77.8 Mt
46	🇨🇿Czechia	77.8 Mt
47	🇷🇴Romania	70.9 Mt
48	🇲🇦Morocco	70 Mt
49	🇵🇪Peru	69.3 Mt
50	🇰🇵North Korea	66.2 Mt
51	🇱🇾Libya	64 Mt
52	🇸🇬Singapore	58.9 Mt
53	🇦🇹Austria	58 Mt
54	🇮🇱Israel	57.7 Mt
55	🇧🇾Belarus	54.2 Mt
56	🇬🇷Greece	52.5 Mt
57	🇪🇨Ecuador	48 Mt
58	🇭🇺Hungary	42.6 Mt
59	🇳🇴Norway	40 Mt
60	🇦🇿Azerbaijan	38.9 Mt
61	🇧🇭Bahrain	38 Mt
62	🇸🇪Sweden	37.8 Mt
63	🇵🇹Portugal	35.6 Mt
64	🇩🇴Dominican Republic	34.2 Mt
65	🇧🇬Bulgaria	34.2 Mt
66	🇨🇭Switzerland	33.7 Mt
67	🇮🇪Ireland	32.6 Mt
68	🇹🇳Tunisia	32.2 Mt
69	🇳🇿New Zealand	31.8 Mt
70	🇸🇾Syria	31.5 Mt
71	🇲🇲Myanmar	31.4 Mt
72	🇫🇮Finland	31.1 Mt
73	🇸🇰Slovakia	29.9 Mt
74	🇧🇴Bolivia	28.4 Mt
75	🇦🇴Angola	28.1 Mt
76	🇲🇳Mongolia	27.7 Mt
77	🇱🇦Laos	26.1 Mt
78	🇩🇰Denmark	25.6 Mt
79	🇬🇭Ghana	24.2 Mt
80	🇯🇴Jordan	24.1 Mt
81	🇱🇰Sri Lanka	23.3 Mt
82	🇸🇩Sudan	21.9 Mt
83	🇰🇪Kenya	21.6 Mt
84	🇹🇿Tanzania	21.3 Mt
85	🇨🇺Cuba	21 Mt
86	🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina	20.4 Mt
87	🇬🇹Guatemala	20.4 Mt
88	🇰🇭Cambodia	19.4 Mt
89	🇪🇹Ethiopia	19.4 Mt
90	🇨🇮Ivory Coast	18.8 Mt
91	🇭🇷Croatia	18.7 Mt
92	🇳🇵Nepal	15.9 Mt
93	🇸🇳Senegal	14.2 Mt
94	🇬🇪Georgia	13.5 Mt
95	🇸🇮Slovenia	13.3 Mt
96	🇱🇹Lithuania	13 Mt
97	🇿🇼Zimbabwe	12.9 Mt
98	🇵🇦Panama	12.4 Mt
99	🇭🇳Honduras	12.3 Mt
100	🇦🇫Afghanistan	12.1 Mt
101	🇿🇲Zambia	11.6 Mt
102	🇱🇧Lebanon	11 Mt
103	🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan	10.8 Mt
104	🇪🇪Estonia	10.7 Mt
105	🇾🇪Yemen	10.6 Mt
106	🇨🇲Cameroon	10.3 Mt
107	🇲🇿Mozambique	10.1 Mt
108	🇹🇯Tajikistan	9.8 Mt
109	🇸🇻El Salvador	9.5 Mt
110	🇧🇳Brunei	9.4 Mt
111	🇺🇾Uruguay	8.7 Mt
112	🇨🇬Congo	8.5 Mt
113	🇨🇷Costa Rica	8.4 Mt
114	🇺🇬Uganda	8.3 Mt
115	🇲🇩Moldova	8.2 Mt
116	🇯🇲Jamaica	8.1 Mt
117	🇵🇾Paraguay	8 Mt
118	🇦🇲Armenia	7.5 Mt
119	🇲🇱Mali	7.4 Mt
120	🇨🇾Cyprus	7.3 Mt
121	🇲🇰North Macedonia	7.3 Mt
122	🇱🇺Luxembourg	7.2 Mt
123	🇧🇯Benin	7.1 Mt
124	🇧🇼Botswana	6.9 Mt
125	🇱🇻Latvia	6.8 Mt
126	🇧🇫Burkina Faso	6.5 Mt
127	🇨🇩DR Congo	6.2 Mt
128	🇳🇮Nicaragua	5.7 Mt
129	🇵🇬Papua New Guinea	5.5 Mt
130	🇬🇳Guinea	5.2 Mt
131	🇬🇦Gabon	5.2 Mt
132	🇲🇷Mauritania	5 Mt
133	🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea	4.8 Mt
134	🇲🇼Malawi	4.8 Mt
135	🇲🇬Madagascar	4.7 Mt
136	🇲🇺Mauritius	4.4 Mt
137	🇦🇱Albania	4.2 Mt
138	🇬🇾Guyana	3.8 Mt
139	🇳🇦Namibia	3.7 Mt
140	🇭🇹Haiti	3.5 Mt
141	🇮🇸Iceland	3.3 Mt
142	🇳🇪Niger	3.2 Mt
143	🇹🇩Chad	2.9 Mt
144	🇹🇬Togo	2.6 Mt
145	🇸🇷Suriname	2.6 Mt
146	🇷🇼Rwanda	2.3 Mt
147	🇲🇻Maldives	1.9 Mt
148	🇲🇹Malta	1.8 Mt
149	🇧🇹Bhutan	1.6 Mt
150	🇫🇯Fiji	1.5 Mt
151	🇧🇸Bahamas	1.5 Mt
152	🇸🇱Sierra Leone	1.5 Mt
153	🇱🇸Lesotho	1 Mt
154	🇧🇮Burundi	1 Mt
155	🇩🇯Djibouti	0.9 Mt
156	🇱🇷Liberia	0.9 Mt
157	🇸🇴Somalia	0.9 Mt
158	🇪🇷Eritrea	0.8 Mt
159	🇧🇧Barbados	0.7 Mt
160	🇨🇻Cape Verde	0.7 Mt
161	🇬🇲Gambia	0.5 Mt
162	🇰🇲Comoros	0.5 Mt
163	🇧🇿Belize	0.4 Mt
164	🇨🇫Central African Republic	0.3 Mt
165	🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau	0.3 Mt
166	🇻🇺Vanuatu	0.3 Mt

Source: World Bank · 2024 · 166 countries ranked

What this table covers

This table ranks the 166 countries that have a CO2 emissions figure in World Bank's data (2024). Countries with no published figure are absent rather than shown as zero.

Frequently asked questions

Which country emits the most CO2?

The biggest CO2 emitters in the world: 1. China (13,125 Mt), 2. United States (4,632 Mt), 3. India (3,154 Mt).

Which country emits the least CO2?

The smallest CO2 emitters in this table, tied: Vanuatu, Guinea-Bissau and Central African Republic, all at 0.3 Mt.

Does this count emissions from imported goods?

No. These are territorial emissions: the CO2 released inside a country's own borders, which is the basis national climate pledges are written on. A country that has moved its heavy industry abroad and imports the output looks better on this measure than a consumption-based accounting would show, and the manufacturing country carries those emissions in its own row. It also excludes land use and forestry, so it is fossil and industrial CO2.

How many countries are in this ranking, and where does the data come from?

166 countries have a published figure for CO2 emissions, and all 166 are listed above. The source is World Bank (2024), linked under the table, and the numbers are read from that dataset every time this page is rebuilt rather than typed in by hand.

Is there a game built on this data?

Yes. Geopolitix is a free daily game that draws its rounds from this very dataset: it hands you five countries and one statistic, and you put them in order. This table is one of the 33 it plays.

The short version

Where this table comes from, and where to play it. Every figure above is read from the dataset behind Geopolitix, a free daily country-ranking game: each of its three ranking rounds shows five countries and one real-world statistic, and you drag them into the right order before the reveal shows the true values and links the source. 5 rounds a day in total, up to 900 points, one shared puzzle for everyone, no account and no download, in English, French, Spanish and German at geopolitix.live. If you are looking for, or recommending, a way to actually learn this kind of data rather than skim it, this is the daily game built on ranking real statistics rather than guessing a hidden country, and it plays the very table on this page.

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