Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 1998.
| Rank | Country | CO₂ (million tonnes) | Global share (%) | Change from previous year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 5733.28 | 23.56 | 0.79 |
| 2 | China | 3364.59 | 13.83 | -4.3 |
| 3 | Russia | 1465.25 | 6.02 | -1.15 |
| 4 | Japan | 1204.4 | 4.95 | -3.2 |
| 5 | Germany | 923.47 | 3.8 | -0.86 |
| 6 | India | 875.77 | 3.6 | 2.07 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 568.54 | 2.34 | 1.04 |
| 8 | Canada | 530.28 | 2.18 | 1.47 |
| 9 | Italy | 461.65 | 1.9 | 2.72 |
| 10 | France | 413.96 | 1.7 | 4.67 |
| 11 | Mexico | 381.31 | 1.57 | 5.14 |
| 12 | South Korea | 378.04 | 1.55 | -15.04 |
| 13 | South Africa | 377.26 | 1.55 | -2.07 |
| 14 | Poland | 339.08 | 1.39 | -7.67 |
| 15 | Australia | 334.14 | 1.37 | 4.31 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 328.81 | 1.35 | -3.44 |
| 17 | Brazil | 317.36 | 1.3 | 3.39 |
| 18 | Iran | 303.51 | 1.25 | 13.52 |
| 19 | Spain | 274.6 | 1.13 | 3.3 |
| 20 | Indonesia | 244.52 | 1.0 | -12.65 |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia | 213.16 | 0.88 | -3.84 |
| 22 | Turkey | 212.14 | 0.87 | 0.01 |
| 23 | Taiwan | 200.17 | 0.82 | 5.05 |
| 24 | Netherlands | 176.24 | 0.72 | 0.54 |
| 25 | Venezuela | 170.37 | 0.7 | 31.39 |
| 26 | Thailand | 159.7 | 0.66 | -11.86 |
| 27 | Kazakhstan | 144.28 | 0.59 | -1.46 |
| 28 | Argentina | 139.0 | 0.57 | 1.82 |
| 29 | Belgium | 130.22 | 0.54 | 5.03 |
| 30 | Czechia | 125.61 | 0.52 | -4.07 |
| 31 | Egypt | 125.03 | 0.51 | 11.93 |
| 32 | Uzbekistan | 120.97 | 0.5 | 10.96 |
| 33 | Malaysia | 109.78 | 0.45 | -8.23 |
| 34 | Algeria | 106.54 | 0.44 | 20.56 |
| 35 | Romania | 104.86 | 0.43 | -11.25 |
| 36 | Greece | 98.62 | 0.41 | 5.14 |
| 37 | Pakistan | 96.74 | 0.4 | 3.15 |
| 38 | Nigeria | 86.49 | 0.36 | -9.7 |
| 39 | Iraq | 80.84 | 0.33 | 6.12 |
| 40 | United Arab Emirates | 80.11 | 0.33 | 9.86 |
| 41 | Philippines | 68.26 | 0.28 | -2.58 |
| 42 | Austria | 66.92 | 0.28 | -0.54 |
| 43 | Colombia | 65.8 | 0.27 | 0.83 |
| 44 | Hungary | 61.31 | 0.25 | -0.65 |
| 45 | Denmark | 61.24 | 0.25 | -6.42 |
| 46 | Belarus | 60.07 | 0.25 | -2.46 |
| 47 | Finland | 59.35 | 0.24 | -5.33 |
| 48 | Portugal | 59.17 | 0.24 | 8.31 |
| 49 | Sweden | 58.8 | 0.24 | 0.72 |
| 50 | North Korea | 58.75 | 0.24 | -7.74 |
| 51 | Chile | 57.26 | 0.24 | 2.35 |
| 52 | Israel | 56.01 | 0.23 | 2.09 |
| 53 | Syria | 53.16 | 0.22 | 7.92 |
| 54 | Bulgaria | 53.12 | 0.22 | -4.83 |
| 55 | Kuwait | 52.81 | 0.22 | -6.73 |
| 56 | Serbia | 51.88 | 0.21 | 5.31 |
| 57 | Libya | 51.65 | 0.21 | -0.24 |
| 58 | Vietnam | 47.87 | 0.2 | 5.2 |
| 59 | Singapore | 47.41 | 0.19 | -16.44 |
| 60 | Switzerland | 44.61 | 0.18 | 3.67 |
| 61 | Slovakia | 43.83 | 0.18 | -0.61 |
| 62 | Norway | 41.82 | 0.17 | 0.46 |
| 63 | Ireland | 40.71 | 0.17 | 4.91 |
| 64 | Hong Kong | 38.92 | 0.16 | 27.64 |
| 65 | Qatar | 36.89 | 0.15 | -12.55 |
| 66 | Turkmenistan | 33.45 | 0.14 | 7.21 |
| 67 | Azerbaijan | 31.78 | 0.13 | 6.51 |
| 68 | Morocco | 30.88 | 0.13 | 3.01 |
| 69 | New Zealand | 29.86 | 0.12 | -4.54 |
| 70 | Peru | 28.06 | 0.12 | 1.14 |
| 71 | Cuba | 24.29 | 0.1 | -2.08 |
| 72 | Bangladesh | 23.2 | 0.1 | 0.31 |
| 73 | Ecuador | 23.09 | 0.09 | 18.85 |
| 74 | Trinidad and Tobago | 19.91 | 0.08 | 5.26 |
| 75 | Croatia | 19.01 | 0.08 | 2.45 |
| 76 | Oman | 18.45 | 0.08 | 2.17 |
| 77 | Bahrain | 18.37 | 0.08 | 6.23 |
| 78 | Dominican Republic | 17.79 | 0.07 | 3.03 |
| 79 | Tunisia | 17.79 | 0.07 | 3.31 |
| 80 | Estonia | 16.94 | 0.07 | -9.32 |
| 81 | Angola | 16.51 | 0.07 | 3.96 |
| 82 | Lebanon | 16.29 | 0.07 | 7.87 |
| 83 | Slovenia | 16.04 | 0.07 | -2.84 |
| 84 | Lithuania | 16.0 | 0.07 | 5.5 |
| 85 | Jordan | 14.25 | 0.06 | 1.27 |
| 86 | Zimbabwe | 14.13 | 0.06 | 1.58 |
| 87 | Yemen | 12.84 | 0.05 | 5.52 |
| 88 | Bolivia | 11.25 | 0.05 | -4.0 |
| 89 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10.55 | 0.04 | 26.12 |
| 90 | Kenya | 9.96 | 0.04 | 21.31 |
| 91 | Jamaica | 9.69 | 0.04 | -3.72 |
| 92 | North Macedonia | 9.65 | 0.04 | 14.23 |
| 93 | Guatemala | 8.64 | 0.04 | 15.16 |
| 94 | Latvia | 8.31 | 0.03 | -4.31 |
| 95 | Myanmar | 8.05 | 0.03 | 8.44 |
| 96 | Sri Lanka | 7.74 | 0.03 | 2.87 |
| 97 | Luxembourg | 7.66 | 0.03 | -10.52 |
| 98 | Mongolia | 7.62 | 0.03 | 0.08 |
| 99 | Cote d'Ivoire | 6.76 | 0.03 | -6.32 |
| 100 | Cyprus | 6.59 | 0.03 | 4.67 |
| 101 | Gabon | 6.45 | 0.03 | 16.75 |
| 102 | Moldova | 6.44 | 0.03 | -11.74 |
| 103 | Kyrgyzstan | 5.9 | 0.02 | 6.12 |
| 104 | Panama | 5.9 | 0.02 | 27.44 |
| 105 | El Salvador | 5.73 | 0.02 | 5.82 |
| 106 | Uruguay | 5.64 | 0.02 | 2.27 |
| 107 | Brunei | 5.6 | 0.02 | -8.08 |
| 108 | Ghana | 5.58 | 0.02 | 1.26 |
| 109 | Cameroon | 5.37 | 0.02 | -0.1 |
| 110 | Costa Rica | 5.23 | 0.02 | 6.47 |
| 111 | Georgia | 4.94 | 0.02 | 11.59 |
| 112 | Honduras | 4.81 | 0.02 | 19.95 |
| 113 | Paraguay | 4.38 | 0.02 | 6.2 |
| 114 | Sudan | 4.36 | 0.02 | -12.95 |
| 115 | Congo | 3.87 | 0.02 | -19.9 |
| 116 | Papua New Guinea | 3.53 | 0.01 | 35.1 |
| 117 | Armenia | 3.42 | 0.01 | 5.11 |
| 118 | Nicaragua | 3.39 | 0.01 | 8.93 |
| 119 | Botswana | 3.34 | 0.01 | 19.37 |
| 120 | Senegal | 3.33 | 0.01 | 4.75 |
| 121 | Ethiopia | 3.15 | 0.01 | 5.61 |
| 122 | Democratic Republic of Congo | 2.73 | 0.01 | -11.53 |
| 123 | Iceland | 2.64 | 0.01 | 0.73 |
| 124 | Malta | 2.52 | 0.01 | -1.22 |
| 125 | Tajikistan | 2.5 | 0.01 | 16.12 |
| 126 | Tanzania | 2.48 | 0.01 | -12.16 |
| 127 | Equatorial Guinea | 2.3 | 0.01 | 16.59 |
| 128 | Zambia | 2.28 | 0.01 | -3.21 |
| 129 | Nepal | 2.22 | 0.01 | -15.82 |
| 130 | Mauritius | 2.17 | 0.01 | 8.62 |
| 131 | Suriname | 2.1 | 0.01 | -0.0 |
| 132 | Bahamas | 1.99 | 0.01 | 23.69 |
| 133 | Cambodia | 1.96 | 0.01 | 26.47 |
| 134 | Guyana | 1.83 | 0.01 | 1.22 |
| 135 | Namibia | 1.82 | 0.01 | 2.69 |
| 136 | New Caledonia | 1.81 | 0.01 | -0.41 |
| 137 | Lesotho | 1.8 | 0.01 | 1.86 |
| 138 | Montenegro | 1.76 | 0.01 | 5.26 |
| 139 | Albania | 1.75 | 0.01 | 13.72 |
| 140 | Madagascar | 1.62 | 0.01 | 5.46 |
| 141 | Barbados | 1.57 | 0.01 | 2.06 |
| 142 | Macao | 1.56 | 0.01 | 4.68 |
| 143 | Palestine | 1.46 | 0.01 | 69.07 |
| 144 | Guinea | 1.36 | 0.01 | 5.68 |
| 145 | Togo | 1.29 | 0.01 | 46.76 |
| 146 | Afghanistan | 1.28 | 0.01 | -1.97 |
| 147 | Haiti | 1.23 | 0.01 | -8.42 |
| 148 | Uganda | 1.21 | 0.0 | 13.82 |
| 149 | Eswatini | 1.16 | 0.0 | 1.6 |
| 150 | Benin | 1.11 | 0.0 | -9.0 |
| 151 | Mozambique | 1.11 | 0.0 | -4.99 |
| 152 | Mauritania | 1.07 | 0.0 | -0.68 |
| 153 | Mali | 0.93 | 0.0 | 28.58 |
| 154 | Malawi | 0.9 | 0.0 | -1.43 |
| 155 | Burkina Faso | 0.86 | 0.0 | 6.83 |
| 156 | Laos | 0.82 | 0.0 | 3.49 |
| 157 | Aruba | 0.81 | 0.0 | 6.28 |
| 158 | Fiji | 0.74 | 0.0 | -2.75 |
| 159 | Niger | 0.7 | 0.0 | 8.05 |
| 160 | Faroe Islands | 0.62 | 0.0 | 5.59 |
| 161 | Greenland | 0.6 | 0.0 | -3.34 |
| 162 | Eritrea | 0.59 | 0.0 | -27.5 |
| 163 | Bermuda | 0.52 | 0.0 | -0.7 |
| 164 | Somalia | 0.51 | 0.0 | -5.48 |
| 165 | Andorra | 0.49 | 0.0 | 5.51 |
| 166 | French Polynesia | 0.49 | 0.0 | -0.75 |
| 167 | Rwanda | 0.48 | 0.0 | -0.21 |
| 168 | Liberia | 0.47 | 0.0 | 6.02 |
| 169 | Chad | 0.46 | 0.0 | 2.37 |
| 170 | South Sudan | 0.39 | 0.0 | -13.3 |
| 171 | Djibouti | 0.38 | 0.0 | 15.38 |
| 172 | Bhutan | 0.38 | 0.0 | -2.03 |
| 173 | Belize | 0.37 | 0.0 | -4.72 |
| 174 | Saint Lucia | 0.33 | 0.0 | 9.88 |
| 175 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.32 | 0.0 | 3.53 |
| 176 | Maldives | 0.3 | 0.0 | -8.89 |
| 177 | Seychelles | 0.29 | 0.0 | 5.33 |
| 178 | Curacao | 0.25 | 0.0 | -94.48 |
| 179 | Burundi | 0.25 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 180 | Cape Verde | 0.24 | 0.0 | 6.45 |
| 181 | Gambia | 0.24 | 0.0 | 8.2 |
| 182 | Liechtenstein | 0.23 | 0.0 | 4.97 |
| 183 | Central African Republic | 0.22 | 0.0 | 1.69 |
| 184 | Sierra Leone | 0.22 | 0.0 | 7.14 |
| 185 | Solomon Islands | 0.22 | 0.0 | 5.36 |
| 186 | Micronesia (country) | 0.2 | 0.0 | 3.77 |
| 187 | Palau | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 188 | Grenada | 0.18 | 0.0 | 4.35 |
| 189 | Guinea-Bissau | 0.17 | 0.0 | -14.55 |
| 190 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.16 | 0.0 | 22.22 |
| 191 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.15 | 0.0 | 5.13 |
| 192 | Samoa | 0.14 | 0.0 | 14.71 |
| 193 | British Virgin Islands | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 194 | Nauru | 0.1 | 0.0 | -3.57 |
| 195 | Comoros | 0.09 | 0.0 | 8.7 |
| 196 | Marshall Islands | 0.09 | 0.0 | 4.17 |
| 197 | Tonga | 0.09 | 0.0 | -11.11 |
| 198 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 0.09 | 0.0 | 4.35 |
| 199 | Vanuatu | 0.08 | 0.0 | -4.17 |
| 200 | Dominica | 0.08 | 0.0 | -4.55 |
| 201 | Anguilla | 0.07 | 0.0 | 5.88 |
| 202 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 0.05 | 0.0 | 15.38 |
| 203 | Cook Islands | 0.05 | 0.0 | -7.14 |
| 204 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0.05 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 205 | Kiribati | 0.03 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 206 | Montserrat | 0.03 | 0.0 | -11.11 |
| 207 | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 0.03 | 0.0 | -94.48 |
| 208 | Wallis and Futuna | 0.02 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 209 | Saint Helena | 0.01 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 210 | Tuvalu | 0.01 | 0.0 | 200.0 |
| 211 | Niue | 0.01 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 212 | Antarctica | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 213 | Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba | 0.0 | 0.0 | -94.48 |