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List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita

This is a list of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita. All data was collected in 2000 by the United Nations Statistics Division.

For some countries, figures for 2000 are unavailable, so their levels of carbon dioxide emissions have been estimated using earlier or later data.

Rank	Country	CO₂ emissions per capita in 2000 in metric tons
1	Qatar	70.1
2	Netherlands Antilles	46.2
3	Bahrain	28.8
4	Kuwait	21.3
5	United Arab Emirates	20.9
6	Aruba	20.6
7	United States of America	20.6
8	Trinidad and Tobago	20.5
9	Brunei	18.9
10	Canada	18.7
11	Australia	18.2
12	Saudi Arabia	16.9
13	Nauru	16.2
14	Singapore	14.7
15	Faroe Islands	14.2
16	Palau	13.0
17	Czech Republic	12.5
18	Falkland Islands	12.4
19	Luxembourg	12.4
20	Belgium	12.3
21	Estonia	12.3
22	Montserrat	12.3
23	Finland	12.0
24	Ireland	11.6
25	Libya	10.9
26	Netherlands	10.9
27	Israel	10.5
28	Germany	10.4
29	Russia	± 10.0
30	Denmark	9.9
31	Greenland	9.9
32	Japan	9.8
33	Greece	9.5
34	United Kingdom	9.3
35	Norway	9.2
36	South Korea	9.1
37	North Korea	8.5
38	Cyprus	8.2
39	Iceland	8.2
40	New Zealand	8.1
41	Poland	8.1
42	Austria	8.0
43	Italy	8.0
44	Slovenia	± 8.0
45	Gibraltar	7.9
46	Cayman Islands	7.8
47	Kazakhstan	7.8
48	Spain	7.6
49	Oman	7.6
50	Turkmenistan	7.5
51	South Africa	7.4
52	Slovakia	7.4
53	Malta	7.2
54	France	6.9
55	Venezuela	6.5
56	Malaysia	6.3
57	Portugal	6.3
58	Sweden	6.1
59	Switzerland	6.1
60	Liechtenstein	± 6.0
61	Ukraine	± 6.0
62	Bahamas	5.9
63	Belarus	5.9
64	Hungary	5.9
65	Bermuda	5.8
66	Bulgaria	5.8
67	Macedonia	5.5
68	Romania	5.0
69	Suriname	5.0
70	Antigua and Barbuda	4.9
71	Hong Kong, China	4.9
72	Bosnia-Herzegovina	4.8
73	Iran	4.7
74	Croatia	± 4.5
75	Uzbekistan	± 4.5
76	Barbados	4.4
77	Lebanon	4.4
78	Mexico	4.3
79	Jamaica	4.2
80	Serbia and Montenegro	4.0
-	World average	± 3.9
81	Chile	3.9
82	Argentine	3.7
83	Azerbaijan	3.6
84	Macau	3.6
85	Belize	3.3
86	Iraq	3.3
87	Syria	3.3
88	Thailand	3.3
89	Turkey	3.2
90	Jordan	3.1
91	Algeria	3.0
92	British Virgin Islands	3.0
93	Mongolia	3.0
94	Dominican Republic	3.0
95	Latvia	2.9
96	Seychelles	2.9
97	Cuba	2.8
98	Gabon	2.8
99	Cook Islands	2.8
100	Monaco	2.7
101	Grenada	2.6
102	Mauritius	2.4
103	Saint Kitts and Nevis	2.4
104	Saint Lucia	2.3
105	Botswana	2.2
106	People's Republic of China (mainland)	2.2
107	Saint Helena	2.2
108	Egypt	2.1
109	Ecuador	2.1
110	Guyana	2.1
111	Panama	2.1
112	Tunisia	1.9
113	Brazil	1.8
114	Maldives	1.7
115	Niue	1.6
116	Uruguay	1.6
117	Federated States of Micronesia	± 1.5
118	Moldova	1.5
119	Colombia	1.4
120	Costa Rica	1.4
121	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1.4
122	Bolivia	1.3
123	Dominica	1.3
124	Indonesia	1.3
125	Morocco	1.3
126	Tonga	1.3
127	Georgia	1.2
128	Mauritania	1.2
129	Zimbabwe	1.2
130	Armenia	1.1
131	El Salvador	1.1
132	India	1.1
133	Peru	1.1
134	Fiji	1.0
135	Namibia	1.0
136	Philippines	1.0
137	Albania	0.9
138	Guatemala	0.9
139	Kyrgyzstan	0.9
140	Western Sahara	0.8
141	Samoa	0.8
142	Côte d'Ivoire	0.7
143	Honduras	0.7
144	Nicaragua	0.7
145	Pakistan	0.7
146	Paraguay	0.7
147	Tajikistan	0.7
148	Vietnam	0.7
149	Djibouti	0.6
150	São Tomé and Príncipe	0.6
151	Angola	0.5
152	Congo	0.5
153	Lesotho	± 0.5
154	Papua New Guinea	0.5
155	Sri Lanka	0.5
156	Tuvalu	± 0.5
157	Yemen	0.5
158	Cameroon	0.4
159	Equatorial Guinea	0.4
160	Solomon Islands	0.4
161	Senegal	0.4
162	Swaziland	0.4
163	Togo	0.4
164	Vanuatu	0.4
165	Benin	0.3
166	Cape Verde	0.3
167	Ghana	0.3
168	Kenya	0.3
169	Kiribati	0.3
170	Nigeria	0.3
171	Bangladesh	0.2
172	Bhutan	0.2
173	Gambia	0.2
174	Guinea	0.2
175	Guinea-Bissau	0.2
176	Haiti	0.2
177	Myanmar	0.2
178	Sudan	0.2
179	Zambia	0.2
180	Burkina Faso	0.1
181	Comoros	0.1
182	Ethiopia	0.1
183	Laos	0.1
184	Liberia	0.1
185	Madagascar	0.1
186	Malawi	0.1
187	Mozambique	0.1
188	Nepal	0.1
189	Niger	0.1
190	Uganda	0.1
191	Central African Republic	0.1
192	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.1
193	Rwanda	0.1
194	Sierra Leone	0.1
195	Tanzania	0.1
196	Afghanistan	0.0
197	Burundi	0.0
198	Cambodia	0.0
199	Mali	0.0
200	Somalia	± 0.0
201	Chad	0.0

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