CO2 emissions per dollar of GDP

kilograms, 1820–2018

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    1820 Ranking
    1. United Kingdom 0.61
    2. Poland 0.09
    3. Germany 0.09
    4. Austria 0.05
    5. France 0.05
    6. United States 0.03
    7. Canada 0.00
    2018 Ranking
    1. Mongolia 1.55
    2. Trinidad and Tobago 1.09
    3. North Korea 0.94
    4. South Africa 0.70
    5. Laos 0.69
    6. Kazakhstan 0.69
    7. China 0.55
    8. Turkmenistan 0.55
    9. Iran 0.54
    10. Ukraine 0.54
    11. Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.54
    12. Bahrain 0.51
    13. Estonia 0.50
    14. Zimbabwe 0.50
    15. Russia 0.47
    16. Serbia 0.46
    17. Syria 0.46
    18. Lesotho 0.45
    19. Libya 0.45
    20. Venezuela 0.42
    21. Jamaica 0.41
    22. Oman 0.41
    23. Iraq 0.41
    24. Kuwait 0.38
    25. Canada 0.35
    26. Belarus 0.35
    27. Saudi Arabia 0.34
    28. Kyrgyzstan 0.34
    29. Barbados 0.34
    30. Uzbekistan 0.34
    31. Australia 0.34
    32. Bulgaria 0.33
    33. Liberia 0.32
    34. South Korea 0.32
    35. Malaysia 0.32
    36. Poland 0.32
    37. Czech Republic 0.32
    38. Vietnam 0.32
    39. United States 0.30
    40. Mauritania 0.30
    41. Bolivia 0.30
    42. India 0.29
    43. Benin 0.29
    44. Greece 0.29
    45. Mozambique 0.29
    46. Lebanon 0.29
    47. Cuba 0.28
    48. Algeria 0.28
    49. Qatar 0.27
    50. Luxembourg 0.27
    51. Togo 0.27
    52. Cyprus 0.26
    53. Taiwan 0.26
    54. Thailand 0.26
    55. Cambodia 0.26
    56. Equatorial Guinea 0.26
    57. United Arab Emirates 0.26
    58. Turkey 0.25
    59. Moldova 0.25
    60. Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.) 0.25
    61. Dominica 0.25
    62. Slovakia 0.25
    63. Iceland 0.24
    64. Slovenia 0.24
    65. Ecuador 0.24
    66. Jordan 0.24
    67. Azerbaijan 0.23
    68. Tunisia 0.23
    69. Japan 0.23
    70. Honduras 0.23
    71. Senegal 0.23
    72. Mexico 0.23
    73. Argentina 0.22
    74. Israel 0.22
    75. Belgium 0.22
    76. Morocco 0.22
    77. Seychelles 0.22
    78. Finland 0.21
    79. Angola 0.21
    80. Saint Lucia 0.21
    81. Croatia 0.21
    82. Chile 0.21
    83. Egypt 0.21
    84. New Zealand 0.21
    85. Pakistan 0.20
    86. Romania 0.20
    87. Hungary 0.20
    88. Tajikistan 0.20
    89. Netherlands 0.20
    90. Germany 0.19
    91. Botswana 0.19
    92. Armenia 0.19
    93. Indonesia 0.19
    94. Portugal 0.19
    95. Spain 0.18
    96. Haiti 0.18
    97. Namibia 0.18
    98. Lithuania 0.18
    99. Nicaragua 0.18
    100. Mauritius 0.18
    101. Montenegro 0.18
    102. Austria 0.18
    103. Comoros 0.17
    104. Latvia 0.17
    105. Italy 0.17
    106. Georgia 0.17
    107. Nepal 0.17
    108. Saint Thomas and Principe 0.17
    109. Albania 0.16
    110. Sudan 0.16
    111. Guinea 0.16
    112. Brazil 0.16
    113. Cape Verde 0.16
    114. Afghanistan 0.16
    115. Dominican Republic 0.15
    116. Philippines 0.15
    117. Guatemala 0.15
    118. United Kingdom 0.15
    119. Yemen 0.14
    120. Gambia 0.14
    121. Colombia 0.14
    122. Panama 0.14
    123. Peru 0.14
    124. Djibouti 0.13
    125. West Bank and Gaza 0.13
    126. Burkina Faso 0.13
    127. Gabon 0.13
    128. Denmark 0.13
    129. France 0.13
    130. Nigeria 0.13
    131. Bangladesh 0.13
    132. Ireland 0.12
    133. Ghana 0.12
    134. Paraguay 0.12
    135. Ivory Coast 0.12
    136. Mali 0.12
    137. Congo (Brazzaville) 0.12
    138. Madagascar 0.11
    139. Zambia 0.11
    140. Hong Kong 0.11
    141. Costa Rica 0.11
    142. Swaziland 0.11
    143. Guinea Bissau 0.11
    144. El Salvador 0.11
    145. Niger 0.10
    146. Cameroon 0.10
    147. Kenya 0.10
    148. Norway 0.10
    149. Malta 0.10
    150. Singapore 0.09
    151. Sierra Leone 0.09
    152. Uruguay 0.09
    153. Sri Lanka 0.09
    154. Sweden 0.09
    155. Central African Republic 0.08
    156. Ethiopia 0.08
    157. Burma (Myanmar) 0.08
    158. Burundi 0.08
    159. Tanzania 0.07
    160. Switzerland 0.07
    161. Malawi 0.07
    162. Uganda 0.06
    163. Rwanda 0.05
    164. Chad 0.03
    165. Congo (Kinshasa) 0.03

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    Annual production-based emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), measured in kilograms per dollar of GDP (2011 international-$). Production-based emissions are based on territorial emissions, which do not account for emissions embedded in traded goods.

    Source: Friedlingstein et al. (2020) and Maddison Project Database 2020 (Bolt and van Zanden (2020))