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CO₂ emissions per capita
Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from burning fossil fuels and industrial processes. This includes emissions from transport, electricity generation, and heating, but not land-use change.
CO₂ emissions per capita data
Unweighted average of the 54 countries reporting in 2024
-4.1% on 2014. Country values run from 0.05 to 8.8 tonnes per person. An average of country values, not a regional total.
- Countries covered
- 54
- Years
- 1950–2024
- Observations
- 3,860
- Source
- Our World in Data
Countries
3/6 selected. Select up to 6 to compare.
Years
1950 – 2024 · 75 years
Annual values by country, 1950 to 2024
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- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
3 countries · 75 years · 3,860 values in the snapshot
Data tablevalues in tonnes per person
| Country | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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| Algeria DZ | 0.42 | 0.45 | 0.41 | 0.41 | 0.41 | 0.45 | 0.48 | 0.52 | 0.48 | 0.51 | 0.54 | 0.52 | 0.48 | 0.45 | 0.46 | 0.53 | 0.67 | 0.65 | 0.69 | 0.84 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 2 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 2 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3 | 3.5 | 3 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4 | 3.9 | 4 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.2 |
| Angola AO | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.1 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.1 | 0.09 | 0.22 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.21 | 0.28 | 0.18 | 0.29 | 0.48 | 0.61 | 0.57 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 0.74 | 0.64 | 0.46 | 0.48 | 0.71 | 0.7 | 0.66 | 0.62 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.53 | 0.48 | 0.46 | 0.55 | 0.46 | 0.44 | 0.44 | 0.42 | 0.42 | 0.45 | 0.86 | 0.92 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.99 | 0.95 | 0.93 | 0.97 | 0.91 | 0.8 | 0.86 | 0.85 | 0.87 | 0.92 | 0.99 | 0.97 | 1 | 0.98 | 0.96 | 0.98 | 0.87 | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.69 | 0.49 | 0.56 | 0.59 | 0.59 | 0.59 |
| Benin BJ | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.12 | 0.1 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.1 | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.21 | 0.2 | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.3 | 0.32 | 0.3 | 0.39 | 0.44 | 0.42 | 0.44 | 0.48 | 0.44 | 0.42 | 0.43 | 0.43 | 0.47 | 0.45 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.41 | 0.42 | 0.43 | 0.44 | 0.42 | 0.42 |
Source and notes
- Indicator code
- OWID.CO2.PC
- Unit
- tonnes per person
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Collection
- Our World in Data
Values as published by Our World in Data: Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024). Coverage is the countries and years held in this snapshot, not the full extent of the series at source. Check at ourworldindata.org.
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