CO2 emissions per person, fossil fuels and industry (Our World in Data, Global Carbon Budget)
Source series · Listed tier · Environment · Annual · tonnes CO2 per person · OWID.L.CO2.PC.A
Listed tier: bulk-loaded from the publisher's file as published; not individually reviewed by SOTW.
Latest reading by geography
Sorted by value, highest first. Each row keeps its own period, and national definitions can differ, so the order is not a like for like ranking.
Source: Our World in Data. 218 geographies, periods 2025-01-01 to 2025-01-01. n/a means the source value is missing or withheld.
Explore history by geography
Choose one geography to chart its stored history in the series' own units and frequency.
- Source
- Our World in Data
- Unit
- tonnes CO2 per person
- Frequency
- Annual
- Series identity
- OWID.L.CO2.PC.A
This catalog preserves stored source periods and status codes, but complete publisher flags, original release times and country-specific methods have not all been reviewed. These are current stored readings and may be revised.
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Source and interpretation
Source: Our World in Data, from the Global Carbon Budget (CC BY 4.0).
Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Reuse remains subject to this source’s terms.
The period and stored status columns reproduce this catalog’s source fields. An empty status means no stored flag, not a guarantee that the publisher supplied none. U-marked numeric readings are withheld; B-marked readings interrupt chart continuity. Other codes require the source’s own guidance. This viewer does not establish original release dates, complete revision history or comparable national methods.
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