Per capita GHG emissions (tons/capita) by country

Countries reporting

187

Highest

71 tons/capita

Solomon Islands

Lowest

0.32 tons/capita

Fiji

Median

5.37 tons/capita

Years covered

1990–2018

Data points

5,438

What the numbers show

Per capita GHG emissions (tons/capita) is currently reported for 187 countries. The highest value is 71 tons/capita in Solomon Islands; the lowest is 0.32 tons/capita in Fiji.

The median across all reporting countries is 5.37 tons/capita, and the mean is 7.75 tons/capita.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 222.

Over the past decade 88 countries rose and 98 fell. The largest increase was in Solomon Islands (up 1,385.4%), and the largest decrease in Ghana (down 78.2%).

Per capita GHG emissions: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Solomon Islands	71 tons/capita	2018	up 1,385.4%	volatile
2	Brunei	39.51 tons/capita	2018	down 24.2%	falling
3	Qatar	35.89 tons/capita	2018	down 15.0%	flat
4	Bahrain	31.19 tons/capita	2018	down 4.6%	flat
5	United Arab Emirates	27.33 tons/capita	2018	down 3.1%	falling
6	Kuwait	27.3 tons/capita	2018	down 12.3%	rising
7	Botswana	25.49 tons/capita	2018	down 21.6%	falling
8	Australia	24.79 tons/capita	2018	down 14.6%	falling
9	Guyana	24.55 tons/capita	2018	up 42.7%	rising
10	Suriname	22.82 tons/capita	2018	up 72.1%	rising
11	Turkmenistan	21.38 tons/capita	2018	up 11.8%	rising
12	Grenada	21.14 tons/capita	2018	down 0.5%	rising
13	Canada	20.6 tons/capita	2018	down 31.5%	flat
14	Saudi Arabia	18.94 tons/capita	2018	up 8.9%	rising
15	Central African Republic	18.66 tons/capita	2018	down 1.4%	falling
16	Palau	17.93 tons/capita	2018	up 44.5%	rising
17	Belize	17.81 tons/capita	2018	up 23.8%	volatile
18	United States	17.74 tons/capita	2018	down 13.3%	falling
19	Equatorial Guinea	17.65 tons/capita	2018	down 48.6%	rising
20	Mongolia	17.58 tons/capita	2018	up 22.3%	rising
21	Oman	17.04 tons/capita	2018	up 2.9%	rising
22	Trinidad and Tobago	16.57 tons/capita	2018	down 8.7%	rising
23	Luxembourg	16.36 tons/capita	2018	down 30.1%	falling
24	Estonia	15.55 tons/capita	2018	up 5.8%	falling
25	Libya	15.43 tons/capita	2018	down 32.5%	falling
26	Kazakhstan	14.84 tons/capita	2018	down 17.1%	flat
27	New Zealand	14.61 tons/capita	2018	up 3.5%	rising
28	Russia	13.79 tons/capita	2018	up 14.0%	falling
29	Paraguay	13.7 tons/capita	2018	down 9.9%	flat
30	Barbados	13.21 tons/capita	2018	down 11.2%	rising
31	South Korea	13.04 tons/capita	2018	up 23.0%	rising
32	Ireland	12.8 tons/capita	2018	down 17.5%	falling
33	Antigua and Barbuda	12.59 tons/capita	2018	up 10.7%	rising
34	Malaysia	12.31 tons/capita	2018	down 8.9%	falling
35	Singapore	11.82 tons/capita	2018	up 10.7%	falling
36	Finland	11.14 tons/capita	2018	up 8.1%	falling
37	Bolivia	11.12 tons/capita	2018	up 5.5%	falling
38	Czechia	11.01 tons/capita	2018	down 13.4%	falling
39	Netherlands	10.45 tons/capita	2018	down 13.1%	falling
40	Iran	10.13 tons/capita	2018	up 9.2%	rising
41	Uruguay	9.97 tons/capita	2018	up 15.3%	rising
42	Israel	9.9 tons/capita	2018	down 14.1%	rising
43	Venezuela	9.6 tons/capita	2018	down 23.0%	falling
44	Belgium	9.53 tons/capita	2018	down 15.8%	falling
45	Iceland	9.51 tons/capita	2018	down 18.4%	falling
46	Poland	9.39 tons/capita	2018	up 12.5%	falling
47	Germany	9.37 tons/capita	2018	down 13.5%	falling
48	Namibia	9.19 tons/capita	2018	down 11.2%	falling
49	Japan	9.13 tons/capita	2018	up 3.2%	flat
50	South Africa	9.01 tons/capita	2018	down 11.1%	rising
51	Serbia	8.95 tons/capita	2018	up 102.5%	falling
52	Argentina	8.89 tons/capita	2018	down 19.5%	rising
53	Slovenia	8.45 tons/capita	2018	up 84.5%	rising
54	China	8.4 tons/capita	2018	up 31.7%	rising
55	Democratic Republic of Congo	8.11 tons/capita	2018	up 10.9%	falling
56	Denmark	8.07 tons/capita	2018	down 30.9%	falling
57	Greece	8.03 tons/capita	2018	down 26.3%	falling
58	Seychelles	8.02 tons/capita	2018	down 13.7%	rising
59	Azerbaijan	7.88 tons/capita	2018	down 4.0%	falling
60	Austria	7.68 tons/capita	2018	down 17.9%	flat
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.66 tons/capita	2018	up 10.4%	rising
62	Andorra	7.63 tons/capita	2018	unchanged	flat
63	Papua New Guinea	7.45 tons/capita	2018	up 7.0%	falling
64	Slovakia	7.13 tons/capita	2018	up 4.2%	falling
65	Uzbekistan	7.04 tons/capita	2018	down 22.4%	falling
66	Belarus	7.03 tons/capita	2018	up 5.4%	flat
66	Saint Kitts and Nevis	7.03 tons/capita	2018	down 4.0%	rising
68	Cyprus	7.02 tons/capita	2018	down 18.8%	falling
69	Bahamas	6.87 tons/capita	2018	down 4.8%	falling
70	Chad	6.79 tons/capita	2018	up 8.6%	rising
71	Brazil	6.78 tons/capita	2018	down 35.9%	falling
72	Spain	6.69 tons/capita	2018	down 19.6%	rising
73	United Kingdom	6.64 tons/capita	2018	down 34.4%	falling
74	Gabon	6.59 tons/capita	2018	up 8.0%	falling
75	Portugal	6.53 tons/capita	2018	down 7.8%	flat
76	Lithuania	6.5 tons/capita	2018	down 11.0%	falling
77	Hungary	6.42 tons/capita	2018	down 8.3%	falling
78	Italy	6.4 tons/capita	2018	down 23.4%	falling
79	Indonesia	6.37 tons/capita	2018	up 37.9%	falling
80	South Sudan	6.24 tons/capita	2018	down 27.9%	falling
81	Thailand	6.21 tons/capita	2018	up 33.3%	rising
82	Montenegro	6.16 tons/capita	2018	up 944.1%	volatile
83	Nauru	6.03 tons/capita	2018	up 22.8%	falling
84	Nicaragua	5.98 tons/capita	2018	down 11.9%	falling
85	Ukraine	5.88 tons/capita	2018	down 29.7%	falling
86	Peru	5.82 tons/capita	2018	up 17.6%	rising
87	Turkey	5.76 tons/capita	2018	up 27.4%	rising
88	Iraq	5.63 tons/capita	2018	up 52.2%	rising
89	Mexico	5.51 tons/capita	2018	up 2.4%	rising
90	Laos	5.47 tons/capita	2018	up 40.3%	flat
91	Colombia	5.4 tons/capita	2018	up 1.1%	falling
91	France	5.4 tons/capita	2018	down 17.1%	falling
93	Ecuador	5.38 tons/capita	2018	down 7.2%	falling
94	Panama	5.37 tons/capita	2018	up 4.7%	flat
95	Norway	5.35 tons/capita	2018	up 0.9%	falling
96	Mauritius	5.31 tons/capita	2018	up 18.3%	rising
97	East Timor	5.25 tons/capita	2018	down 19.6%	volatile
98	Algeria	5.19 tons/capita	2018	up 12.1%	rising
99	Switzerland	5.14 tons/capita	2018	down 23.9%	falling
100	North Macedonia	5.04 tons/capita	2018	down 17.4%	falling
101	Lebanon	5 tons/capita	2018	up 5.7%	rising
102	Moldova	4.91 tons/capita	2018	up 23.1%	falling
103	Cameroon	4.89 tons/capita	2018	down 25.6%	falling
104	Liechtenstein	4.73 tons/capita	2018	down 41.2%	falling
105	Liberia	4.7 tons/capita	2018	down 5.8%	falling
106	Latvia	4.61 tons/capita	2018	up 655.4%	volatile
106	Maldives	4.61 tons/capita	2018	up 54.7%	rising
108	Georgia	4.54 tons/capita	2018	up 94.0%	volatile
109	Croatia	4.45 tons/capita	2018	down 32.7%	flat
110	Romania	4.42 tons/capita	2018	down 31.2%	volatile
111	Myanmar	4.31 tons/capita	2018	down 0.9%	falling
112	Cambodia	4.26 tons/capita	2018	up 62.0%	rising
113	Malta	4.19 tons/capita	2018	down 44.3%	falling
114	Samoa	4.07 tons/capita	2018	up 24.1%	rising
115	Angola	4.04 tons/capita	2018	down 29.0%	flat
116	Marshall Islands	4.03 tons/capita	2018	up 35.2%	rising
117	Congo	3.87 tons/capita	2018	down 19.7%	falling
118	Vietnam	3.81 tons/capita	2018	up 38.0%	volatile
119	Mozambique	3.73 tons/capita	2018	down 17.7%	falling
120	Jordan	3.6 tons/capita	2018	down 12.2%	falling
121	Dominican Republic	3.53 tons/capita	2018	up 10.3%	rising
122	Jamaica	3.48 tons/capita	2018	up 13.0%	falling
123	Albania	3.43 tons/capita	2018	up 31.9%	rising
124	Cuba	3.42 tons/capita	2018	up 18.3%	rising
125	Tonga	3.36 tons/capita	2018	up 27.8%	rising
126	Egypt	3.35 tons/capita	2018	down 0.6%	rising
127	Guinea	3.32 tons/capita	2018	up 9.6%	rising
127	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	3.32 tons/capita	2018	up 19.0%	volatile
129	Saint Lucia	3.25 tons/capita	2018	up 13.6%	falling
130	Tunisia	3.23 tons/capita	2018	down 0.3%	rising
131	Dominica	3.2 tons/capita	2018	down 5.3%	flat
132	Armenia	3.18 tons/capita	2018	up 1.6%	falling
133	Sudan	3.13 tons/capita	2018	down 11.1%	falling
134	Tanzania	3.12 tons/capita	2018	up 0.3%	falling
135	Vanuatu	2.96 tons/capita	2018	down 8.4%	falling
136	Mauritania	2.95 tons/capita	2018	down 4.2%	falling
136	Somalia	2.95 tons/capita	2018	down 22.4%	falling
136	Sweden	2.95 tons/capita	2018	down 42.6%	falling
139	Honduras	2.93 tons/capita	2018	down 3.9%	falling
140	Burkina Faso	2.78 tons/capita	2018	up 3.7%	falling
140	Bulgaria	2.78 tons/capita	2018	down 46.8%	falling
142	Lesotho	2.77 tons/capita	2018	up 21.5%	rising
143	Chile	2.76 tons/capita	2018	down 16.4%	falling
144	Syria	2.74 tons/capita	2018	down 44.0%	falling
145	Afghanistan	2.67 tons/capita	2018	up 134.2%	volatile
146	Eswatini	2.64 tons/capita	2018	down 3.6%	falling
147	Morocco	2.56 tons/capita	2018	up 18.5%	rising
148	Eritrea	2.49 tons/capita	2011	down 25.2%	flat
149	India	2.47 tons/capita	2018	up 28.0%	rising
150	Benin	2.45 tons/capita	2018	down 2.0%	falling
151	Guinea-Bissau	2.37 tons/capita	2018	down 12.2%	falling
151	Guatemala	2.37 tons/capita	2018	down 16.3%	falling
153	Kyrgyzstan	2.35 tons/capita	2018	down 4.1%	falling
154	Mali	2.29 tons/capita	2018	up 10.1%	rising
154	Tuvalu	2.29 tons/capita	2018	up 15.1%	rising
156	Philippines	2.2 tons/capita	2018	up 27.9%	rising
157	Senegal	2.17 tons/capita	2018	down 11.1%	falling
158	Micronesia (country)	2.1 tons/capita	2018	up 34.6%	rising
159	El Salvador	2.09 tons/capita	2018	down 10.7%	rising
160	Pakistan	2.07 tons/capita	2018	up 11.9%	rising
161	Niger	2.06 tons/capita	2018	up 6.7%	falling
162	Cote d'Ivoire	1.98 tons/capita	2018	down 20.5%	falling
163	Nepal	1.94 tons/capita	2018	up 70.2%	rising
163	Sao Tome and Principe	1.94 tons/capita	2018	up 136.6%	rising
165	Ethiopia	1.87 tons/capita	2018	up 0.5%	rising
166	Nigeria	1.83 tons/capita	2018	down 0.5%	falling
167	North Korea	1.77 tons/capita	2018	down 54.7%	falling
168	Costa Rica	1.71 tons/capita	2018	down 43.0%	falling
168	Sri Lanka	1.71 tons/capita	2018	up 23.9%	falling
170	Tajikistan	1.66 tons/capita	2018	up 37.2%	falling
170	Uganda	1.66 tons/capita	2018	down 8.3%	falling
172	Madagascar	1.57 tons/capita	2018	down 38.2%	falling
173	Bhutan	1.53 tons/capita	2018	up 119.9%	volatile
174	Malawi	1.48 tons/capita	2018	up 1.4%	falling
175	Gambia	1.45 tons/capita	2018	down 7.1%	volatile
176	Cape Verde	1.41 tons/capita	2018	up 9.3%	volatile
177	Kenya	1.39 tons/capita	2018	down 28.7%	rising
178	Sierra Leone	1.38 tons/capita	2018	down 2.1%	falling
179	Bangladesh	1.37 tons/capita	2018	up 18.1%	rising
180	Togo	1.17 tons/capita	2018	down 1.7%	falling
181	Haiti	0.95 tons/capita	2018	up 13.1%	rising
181	Kiribati	0.95 tons/capita	2018	up 8.0%	rising
183	Burundi	0.8 tons/capita	2018	down 5.9%	falling
184	Comoros	0.79 tons/capita	2018	up 16.2%	falling
185	Ghana	0.66 tons/capita	2018	down 78.2%	rising
186	Rwanda	0.64 tons/capita	2018	down 17.9%	falling
187	Fiji	0.32 tons/capita	2018	up 180.0%	volatile

About this data

Indicator: Per capita GHG emissions (tons/capita)
Unit: tons/capita
Source: Climate Watch. 2020. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. Available online at: https://www.climatewatchdata.org
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 188 places, 5,438 data points, 1990–2018
Last refreshed: 10 August 2026

Per capita greenhouse gas emissions are generated from the World Resource Institute's Climate Watch. Climate Watch Historical Emission data contains sector-level greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data for 194 countries and the European Union (EU) for the period 1990-2018, including emissions of the six major GHGs from most major sources and sinks. Non-CO2 emissions are expressed in CO2 equivalents using 100-year global warming potential values from IPCC Fourth Assessment Report. Climate Watch Historical GHG Emissions data (previously published through CAIT Climate Data Explorer) are derived from several sources. Any use of the Land-Use Change and Forestry or Agriculture indicator should be cited as FAO 2020, FAOSTAT Emissions Database. Any use of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion data should be cited as CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion, OECD/IEA, 2020.