GHG emissions of all world countries

2021 report

Introduction

Since the beginning of 21st century and until 2019, global GHG emissions had followed an increasing trend mainly due to the increase in CO2 emissions from China and the other emerging economies. As a result, the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases substantially increased enhancing the natural greenhouse effect, which may negatively affect the life on the Earth. Regardless the slowing down of global emissions in 2020 caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, climate change remains an issue.

That is internationally addressed in the framework of UNFCCC; countries are developing national emissions inventories and propose/implement actions to mitigate GHG emissions. CO2 emissions, which are the main responsible for global warming are still increasing at world level despite climate change mitigation agreements.

EDGAR provides an independent estimate of greenhouse gases for each world country, based on a robust and consistent methodology stemming from the latest IPCC guidelines and most recent activity data. Following the latest update released in October 2021, emission data are now available for fossil CO2 for each country for the time period 1970-2020 while national emissions for other GHGs are available for 1970-2018.

2021 report
GHG emissions of all world countries

Main findings

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels combustion and processes decreased by 5.1% in 2020 ( they had increased by 0.9% in 2019), at 36.0 Gt CO2, just below the 36.2 Gt CO2 emission level registered in 2013.

In 2020, China, the United States, the EU27, India, Russia and Japan remained the world’s largest CO2 emitters - together they accounting for 49.5% of the population, 61.8% of global Gross Domestic Product, 65.2% of total global fossil fuel consumption and 66.7% of total global fossil CO2

Among these top six world emitters, only China has shown an increase in emissions in 2020 (+1.5%) while all others have decreased their emissions by different amounts: EU27 by 10.6%, United States by 9.9%, Japan by 6.8%, India by 5.9% and Russiaby 5.8%.

Regardless the important decrease of GDP observed in the majority of world countries global fossil CO2 emissions per unit of GDP continued their decreasing trend (-5.4% in 2020 and -35% between 2020 and 1990) reaching the average value of 0.282 tCO2/kUSD/yr. Per capita emissions also decreased in 2020, by 6.5% to a value of 4.62 tCO2/capita/yr, leading to a 8.2% increase from 1990.

EU27 total fossil CO2 emissions had already decreased over the past two decades and emissions in 2019 were 23.2% lower than in 1990 and 20.7% lower than in 2005(14). The COVID-19 pandemic brought the EU27 CO2 emissions to decline by 31.3% [31.5%] in comparison with 1990 and by 29.1% [29.3%] in comparison with 2005.

The EU27 share of the global total emissions decreased from 8.5% to 7.8% between 2015 and 2019 to fall to 7.3% in 2020. In 2020, the EU27 emitted 2.6 Gt CO2, corresponding to 5.9 t CO2 per person.


Fossil CO2 and GHG emissions (2018-2015 vs 1990)

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Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Solazzo, E., Muntean, M., Schaaf, E., Monforti-Ferrario, F., Banja, M., Olivier, J.G.J., Grassi, G., Rossi, S., Vignati, E.,GHG emissions of all world countries - 2021 Report, EUR 30831 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-41547-3, doi:10.2760/173513, JRC126363

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Fossil CO2 per capita emissions (1970 to 2019)

Fossil CO2 emissions by country

The data are presented in the table below for key years, to allow easy comparison of different countries.

"Country names" are consistent with the Interinstitutional Style Guide of the European Commission, the "Short name" definition listed in the "List of countries, territories and currencies" table has been used (as of 20/07/2021)

EDGAR data are expressed in metric units.



Country 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2017 2018
unit ton CO2eq/cap ton CO2eq/cap ton CO2eq/cap ton CO2eq/cap ton CO2eq/cap ton CO2eq/cap ton CO2eq/cap ton CO2eq/cap
EU27 11.79 10.89 10.63 10.63 9.76 8.94 9.01 8.86
GLOBAL TOTAL 6.13 5.92 5.93 6.38 6.67 6.70 6.66 6.71
Afghanistan 1.06 0.75 0.74 0.67 0.96 0.84 0.83 0.81
Albania 3.40 2.02 2.24 2.54 2.69 2.93 3.06 3.06
Algeria 5.23 5.48 5.37 5.34 5.45 6.20 6.10 6.25
Angola 2.57 3.47 3.84 3.32 3.04 2.94 2.56 2.43
Anguilla 1.01 1.97 1.69 1.35 2.03 2.21 2.24 2.16
Antigua and Barbuda 7.32 7.22 6.09 6.52 6.89 8.09 6.27 6.05
Argentina 8.05 8.13 8.43 9.15 8.97 9.25 9.06 8.89
Armenia 6.81 1.84 1.93 2.45 2.45 2.77 2.91 2.96
Aruba 8.89 9.91 10.31 12.14 10.48 11.69 8.99 8.70
Australia 26.27 25.86 28.03 28.16 26.47 24.38 23.96 23.49
Austria 10.56 10.47 10.60 11.90 10.84 9.79 10.06 9.76
Azerbaijan 9.49 5.59 4.99 5.33 5.15 5.82 5.66 5.66
Bahamas 11.71 10.90 11.65 8.41 8.37 8.26 6.75 6.52
Bahrain 56.37 58.16 54.20 45.56 38.71 42.50 39.10 37.81
Bangladesh 1.22 1.15 1.12 1.18 1.34 1.46 1.51 1.54
Barbados 6.01 5.44 6.40 6.43 6.51 6.77 5.58 5.44
Belarus 13.71 8.40 7.87 8.54 9.74 10.66 10.73 11.01
Belgium 14.38 14.97 15.19 14.15 13.37 11.81 11.37 11.35
Belize 3.31 2.88 3.00 2.78 3.01 3.11 2.76 2.69
Benin 0.78 0.72 0.90 1.04 1.29 1.30 1.43 1.50
Bermuda 12.46 9.36 9.14 10.11 12.36 11.08 11.28 11.04
Bhutan 1.99 2.56 2.47 2.52 2.77 2.93 2.79 2.93
Bolivia 4.18 3.84 3.64 3.81 4.39 4.88 5.11 5.16
Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.06 1.61 5.15 5.98 7.41 7.56 8.62 8.75
Botswana 6.33 5.73 5.78 5.16 4.75 5.49 5.18 5.53
Brazil 4.53 5.02 5.25 5.63 5.88 6.26 6.11 5.97
British Virgin Islands 3.45 3.03 4.79 5.15 5.94 6.53 6.17 5.91
Brunei 28.73 31.04 30.91 28.84 33.74 28.33 29.83 29.49
Bulgaria 11.63 9.07 7.70 8.50 8.28 8.71 8.86 8.48
Burkina Faso 1.17 1.19 1.16 1.44 1.47 1.50 1.49 1.48
Burundi 0.52 0.50 0.44 0.45 0.50 0.51 0.55 0.55
Cabo Verde 0.65 0.78 1.27 1.95 2.15 1.97 2.00 2.06
Cambodia 2.03 2.02 1.84 2.00 2.27 2.33 2.56 2.55
Cameroon 2.41 1.95 1.97 1.73 1.54 1.68 1.59 1.60
Canada 21.30 21.94 23.32 22.87 20.99 21.23 20.56 20.62
Cayman Islands 11.93 10.66 10.31 9.05 9.77 11.02 9.05 8.70
Central African Republic 1.62 1.72 1.82 1.86 2.02 2.22 2.30 2.29
Chad 1.68 2.80 2.95 3.36 3.65 4.19 4.39 4.42
Chile 4.30 4.83 5.51 5.67 6.10 6.59 6.89 6.90
China 3.34 4.05 4.16 6.33 8.48 9.45 9.50 9.71
Colombia 3.83 3.91 3.70 3.59 3.72 3.84 3.82 3.93
Comoros 0.76 0.72 0.79 0.82 0.83 0.81 0.93 0.94
Congo 4.06 3.97 5.94 4.84 4.62 3.75 3.80 3.89
Cook Islands 2.69 2.85 3.42 3.99 3.98 5.56 3.74 3.82
Costa Rica 3.08 3.14 2.79 2.79 2.98 2.97 3.12 3.11
Côte d’Ivoire 0.84 0.86 1.04 1.02 1.02 1.18 1.20 1.18
Croatia 7.20 5.18 5.91 7.05 6.73 6.23 6.46 6.17
Cuba 5.89 4.06 4.43 3.97 4.46 4.18 4.09 4.02
Curaçao 19.32 19.83 44.38 48.13 30.97 31.04 24.51 21.05
Cyprus 6.90 7.65 8.50 8.76 8.44 7.10 7.49 7.23
Czechia 18.76 15.02 14.82 14.55 13.58 12.38 12.54 12.37
Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.67 0.55 0.50 0.47 0.45 0.58 0.58 0.57
Denmark 13.69 15.02 13.30 12.47 11.58 8.69 8.59 8.54
Djibouti 3.41 3.63 2.65 2.46 2.34 2.18 2.31 2.32
Dominica 1.54 2.31 2.51 2.81 3.09 3.44 3.45 3.37
Dominican Republic 2.41 2.77 3.33 3.25 3.48 3.64 3.63 3.79
Ecuador 3.58 3.97 3.46 3.91 4.46 4.33 4.02 4.05
Egypt 2.51 2.55 2.81 3.47 3.63 3.55 3.68 4.01
El Salvador 1.42 1.79 1.83 2.07 1.94 1.96 1.85 1.88
Equatorial Guinea 0.51 10.54 17.68 22.30 19.18 13.04 10.86 10.50
Eritrea 1.44 1.44 1.58 1.36 1.24 1.25 1.23 1.23
Estonia 26.16 15.28 14.41 17.01 19.42 18.49 19.13 19.22
Eswatini 3.25 3.21 4.20 4.24 3.80 2.40 2.40 2.44
Ethiopia 1.31 1.11 1.09 1.17 1.36 1.39 1.43 1.42
Falkland Islands 85.75 74.03 57.80 59.10 63.06 64.73 61.57 60.97
Faroes 0.91 0.94 0.92 0.91 0.90 0.92 0.90 0.90
Fiji 2.88 3.08 3.31 3.59 2.65 3.65 3.58 3.65
Finland 16.62 16.47 16.17 16.47 17.60 13.94 13.26 13.50
France and Monaco 9.66 9.40 9.14 8.89 8.12 7.10 7.11 6.90
French Guiana 6.40 7.08 3.48 3.18 3.28 2.70 2.41 2.30
French Polynesia 4.64 3.61 3.29 3.92 3.64 4.02 3.70 3.76
Gabon 18.95 18.99 19.50 16.57 11.55 10.10 9.01 8.66
Georgia 7.75 2.80 2.39 2.49 2.81 4.07 4.22 4.20
Germany 15.54 13.73 12.83 12.07 11.66 11.14 10.94 10.62
Ghana 0.72 0.74 0.83 0.83 0.95 1.18 1.21 1.27
Gibraltar 5.42 9.93 11.55 13.30 14.97 17.98 21.19 23.35
Greece 9.87 9.90 10.70 11.32 9.87 8.30 8.37 8.24
Greenland 1.14 1.15 1.14 12.15 12.77 10.57 10.29 10.30
Grenada 1.76 1.96 2.18 2.40 2.84 3.25 2.68 2.61
Guadeloupe 4.62 4.86 4.72 4.74 5.16 5.37 4.98 4.87
Guatemala 1.44 1.70 1.90 1.94 1.96 2.25 2.26 2.35
Guinea 1.16 1.06 1.21 1.32 1.64 1.77 1.83 1.86
Guinea-Bissau 1.50 1.51 1.50 1.45 1.60 1.54 1.53 1.49
Guyana 4.22 5.31 5.62 5.35 6.01 7.21 6.61 6.47
Haiti 0.84 0.84 0.91 1.15 1.15 1.23 1.23 1.22
Honduras 1.87 1.89 1.82 2.28 2.32 2.43 2.38 2.45
Hong Kong 6.65 6.83 6.91 6.87 6.82 6.95 6.88 6.63
Hungary 9.27 7.55 7.42 7.86 6.84 6.50 6.92 6.93
Iceland 17.79 12.56 13.99 14.49 15.57 14.75 15.09 14.66
India 1.58 1.68 1.76 1.87 2.26 2.52 2.60 2.67
Indonesia 2.26 2.61 2.73 2.93 3.15 3.63 3.86 4.03
Iran 5.70 7.05 7.71 9.46 10.52 10.46 11.12 11.30
Iraq 8.87 7.28 6.50 5.76 6.86 7.87 8.54 8.93
Ireland 16.18 16.90 19.02 17.85 14.51 13.90 14.26 14.08
Israel and Palestine, State of 9.28 10.57 11.50 11.26 11.64 11.02 10.75 10.30
Italy, San Marino and the Holy See 9.29 9.50 9.82 9.93 8.45 7.23 7.13 7.04
Jamaica 3.78 4.22 4.56 4.55 3.17 3.11 3.08 3.56
Japan 10.43 11.01 10.73 10.80 10.28 10.47 10.33 9.99
Jordan 3.46 3.71 3.75 4.32 3.71 3.65 3.76 3.57
Kazakhstan 20.94 15.09 11.69 15.39 19.20 19.77 20.27 19.98
Kenya 1.71 1.52 1.39 1.53 1.94 1.82 1.79 1.79
Kiribati 0.46 0.45 0.59 0.86 0.75 0.78 0.79 0.80
Kuwait 22.60 40.03 40.01 49.15 39.78 35.75 34.03 33.71
Kyrgyzstan 7.68 2.43 2.21 2.30 2.54 3.33 3.16 3.47
Laos 1.80 1.72 1.79 1.90 2.24 3.80 5.38 5.31
Latvia 10.48 5.31 4.48 5.36 6.13 6.20 6.20 6.51
Lebanon 2.91 5.62 5.67 5.18 5.81 5.60 5.90 5.67
Lesotho 1.24 1.18 1.39 1.37 1.33 1.22 1.28 1.26
Liberia 0.75 0.60 0.66 0.74 0.76 0.83 0.86 0.86
Libya 18.68 19.09 15.92 16.73 16.16 11.24 12.34 12.24
Lithuania 12.75 6.22 5.49 6.71 7.40 8.09 8.20 8.15
Luxembourg 33.24 24.60 22.57 28.67 24.10 18.15 17.42 17.73
Macao 2.93 3.23 3.40 4.21 2.27 3.70 3.58 3.63
Madagascar 2.04 1.83 1.65 1.45 1.37 1.29 1.23 1.25
Malawi 0.52 0.52 0.58 0.56 0.62 0.61 0.63 0.66
Malaysia 5.10 6.38 7.85 9.52 9.91 10.42 9.71 10.12
Maldives 0.63 1.45 2.34 2.26 2.76 4.05 4.12 4.16
Mali 1.46 1.41 1.50 1.63 1.78 1.86 1.97 2.02
Malta 6.90 6.85 5.98 7.23 7.28 5.03 4.72 4.76
Martinique 5.07 5.65 5.45 5.24 5.67 5.52 6.08 5.91
Mauritania 3.07 3.59 3.22 3.18 3.03 3.07 3.02 2.98
Mauritius 1.80 2.06 2.80 3.07 4.10 4.50 4.77 4.75
Mexico 5.33 5.52 6.12 6.44 6.50 6.22 6.17 6.13
Moldova 8.59 3.82 2.37 2.73 2.84 2.85 2.91 3.06
Mongolia 11.60 10.23 10.34 9.59 13.07 15.30 18.80 19.48
Morocco 1.74 1.84 1.99 2.34 2.51 2.73 2.79 2.80
Mozambique 0.60 0.57 0.61 0.72 0.63 0.89 1.02 1.07
Myanmar/Burma 1.64 1.79 1.84 2.12 2.19 2.40 2.70 2.70
Namibia 4.81 4.07 4.27 5.03 4.45 4.77 4.84 4.65
Nepal 1.55 1.45 1.41 1.35 1.42 1.50 1.69 1.73
Netherlands 16.93 16.04 15.82 14.82 13.84 12.81 13.04 12.99
New Caledonia 11.16 10.53 13.66 14.81 15.49 18.13 19.53 19.79
New Zealand 20.12 20.02 20.76 20.85 19.06 18.41 18.28 17.88
Nicaragua 2.48 2.31 2.63 2.69 2.74 3.14 3.11 3.04
Niger 1.47 1.55 1.46 1.50 1.46 1.52 1.54 1.56
Nigeria 2.72 3.22 3.08 2.61 2.10 2.04 1.96 2.01
North Korea 8.14 5.18 4.33 4.54 3.17 2.11 1.92 1.74
North Macedonia 7.11 5.64 5.53 5.96 5.63 5.05 5.19 4.91
Norway 14.71 15.24 15.62 15.59 14.90 13.67 13.21 13.26
Oman 16.94 16.79 21.21 24.65 25.81 26.62 25.15 24.85
Pakistan 1.89 1.98 2.04 2.17 2.23 2.29 2.48 2.51
Palau 152.61 145.39 115.59 91.76 107.09 58.53 57.39 58.27
Panama 2.85 3.31 3.24 3.79 4.20 4.26 4.02 3.85
Papua New Guinea 0.79 0.87 1.00 1.43 0.95 1.66 1.75 1.88
Paraguay 4.94 5.35 4.75 4.53 5.94 6.22 6.33 6.27
Peru 2.03 2.15 2.18 2.23 2.67 2.87 2.82 2.81
Philippines 1.68 1.86 1.86 1.82 1.79 2.00 2.20 2.23
Poland 13.43 12.45 10.80 10.93 11.19 10.57 11.20 11.15
Portugal 5.85 6.77 7.82 7.91 6.46 6.52 7.04 6.76
Puerto Rico 1.01 0.90 1.08 1.24 1.26 1.77 1.65 1.62
Qatar 57.02 61.26 107.80 89.36 70.89 68.70 66.14 66.23
Réunion 2.00 2.80 3.51 3.65 3.72 3.46 3.40 3.54
Romania 10.40 7.43 6.01 6.57 5.79 5.79 6.01 6.08
Russia 20.68 15.13 14.45 15.23 15.34 15.50 15.67 16.07
Rwanda 0.49 0.49 0.45 0.50 0.55 0.55 0.54 0.54
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha 2.44 1.69 2.83 3.05 3.60 4.62 4.96 5.15
Saint Kitts and Nevis 2.28 2.88 4.38 4.50 4.92 5.48 3.88 3.76
Saint Lucia 1.85 1.98 2.67 2.70 2.86 3.35 2.88 2.82
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 38.55 12.27 9.67 11.51 13.03 16.37 9.56 9.27
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.12 1.68 1.65 2.20 2.34 2.63 1.84 1.80
Samoa 1.73 1.69 1.80 1.99 2.05 2.87 2.90 2.94
São Tomé and Príncipe 0.74 0.85 0.83 1.01 1.14 1.11 1.17 1.18
Saudi Arabia 14.07 15.08 16.55 18.99 22.07 23.89 23.29 22.37
Senegal 1.28 1.26 1.36 1.42 1.49 1.55 1.56 1.55
Serbia and Montenegro 8.39 5.95 8.17 10.03 10.35 10.29 10.38 10.08
Seychelles 5.18 6.06 11.89 13.02 11.60 11.52 12.60 13.15
Sierra Leone 0.86 0.80 0.66 0.79 0.81 0.84 0.87 0.87
Singapore 11.29 13.09 14.98 11.38 11.62 12.04 12.28 12.18
Slovakia 14.02 10.31 9.51 9.65 9.18 8.21 8.74 8.73
Slovenia 11.41 10.60 10.63 12.17 11.14 9.54 9.90 9.85
Solomon Islands 0.84 0.80 0.71 0.70 0.68 0.74 0.84 0.85
Somalia 3.20 3.03 2.84 2.72 2.25 2.03 1.95 1.91
South Africa 10.58 9.81 9.66 11.06 11.03 10.30 10.15 10.00
South Korea 7.50 10.26 11.63 11.90 13.53 14.14 14.60 14.82
Spain and Andorra 7.58 8.08 9.58 10.33 8.04 7.54 7.67 7.54
Sri Lanka 1.22 1.27 1.41 1.57 1.58 1.91 1.98 1.99
Sudan and South Sudan 2.20 2.46 2.65 2.76 2.66 2.51 2.45 2.42
Suriname 6.74 5.92 5.05 5.11 5.22 5.72 5.34 5.16
Sweden 9.26 9.53 9.02 9.09 8.31 6.76 6.72 6.47
Switzerland and Liechtenstein 8.18 7.66 7.51 7.60 7.05 5.94 5.80 5.61
Syria 4.86 5.27 5.02 4.77 4.35 2.37 2.49 2.33
Taiwan 6.98 8.99 11.63 14.90 13.35 12.99 13.58 13.51
Tajikistan 4.19 1.98 1.72 1.73 1.53 1.73 2.01 2.13
Tanzania 1.18 1.19 1.16 1.20 1.19 1.32 1.27 1.27
Thailand 3.68 4.69 4.63 5.58 6.11 6.31 6.29 6.28
The Gambia 0.99 0.95 0.98 1.00 1.13 1.00 0.96 0.96
Timor-Leste 0.92 1.03 1.27 2.04 4.50 4.99 3.98 3.88
Togo 0.86 0.76 0.96 0.97 1.14 1.14 1.15 1.21
Tonga 1.87 2.06 1.90 2.07 1.96 2.20 2.08 2.09
Trinidad and Tobago 14.18 14.68 21.37 38.07 44.84 39.55 35.65 34.60
Tunisia 2.81 2.88 3.33 3.51 3.88 3.85 3.69 3.66
Turkmenistan 21.35 13.20 15.41 19.83 19.21 22.85 21.70 21.50
Turks and Caicos Islands 0.40 1.24 3.42 4.03 5.35 6.31 6.93 6.65
Türkiye 4.10 4.32 5.02 4.88 5.77 6.54 7.22 7.07
Uganda 0.89 0.85 0.86 0.87 1.08 1.05 1.07 1.06
Ukraine 18.44 11.36 9.13 9.38 8.56 6.64 6.13 6.32
United Arab Emirates 43.39 43.92 38.70 35.75 26.37 28.97 29.92 29.09
United Kingdom 13.49 12.50 11.84 11.33 9.41 7.77 7.15 6.97
United States 24.39 24.57 25.52 24.09 21.67 19.71 18.91 19.27
Uruguay 9.16 10.31 9.97 11.01 11.39 11.82 11.39 11.28
Uzbekistan 8.15 6.61 7.00 6.77 6.29 5.83 5.36 5.32
Vanuatu 3.18 2.84 2.78 2.51 2.73 2.59 2.56 2.54
Venezuela 8.16 8.43 8.68 8.84 9.27 8.22 6.87 6.52
Vietnam 1.51 1.73 2.05 2.68 3.32 3.88 3.97 4.34
Western Sahara 1.83 1.75 1.78 1.40 1.29 1.19 1.10 1.09
Yemen 1.44 1.49 1.78 2.11 2.28 1.27 1.07 1.05
Zambia 1.90 1.56 1.42 1.36 1.34 1.45 1.58 1.62
Zimbabwe 3.33 2.62 2.65 2.11 1.98 1.94 1.74 1.85

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