CO2 Emissions World Ranking 2002

Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 2002.

Key questions

Which country produced the most CO₂ in 2002?

United States produced the most CO₂ out of all countries, followed by China and Russia.

Which country produced the least CO₂ in 2002?

Antarctica produced the least CO₂ out of all countries.

Rankings

Rank Country CO₂ (million tonnes) Global share (%) Change from previous year (%)
1 United States 5946.31 22.63 0.65
2 China 4103.05 15.61 10.05
3 Russia 1506.79 5.73 -0.58
4 Japan 1278.99 4.87 2.37
5 India 1032.14 3.93 3.16
6 Germany 898.83 3.42 -1.79
7 Canada 563.73 2.15 0.96
8 United Kingdom 560.27 2.13 -3.06
9 Italy 477.11 1.82 1.58
10 South Korea 476.06 1.81 4.48
11 Mexico 410.3 1.56 0.69
12 France 405.95 1.54 -1.1
13 Iran 397.03 1.51 1.83
14 Australia 362.54 1.38 1.33
15 South Africa 356.52 1.36 -4.06
16 Brazil 347.77 1.32 0.46
17 Saudi Arabia 347.1 1.32 6.96
18 Spain 331.95 1.26 6.46
19 Indonesia 308.49 1.17 -2.69
20 Poland 306.12 1.16 -2.35
21 Ukraine 295.9 1.13 -2.63
22 Taiwan 238.57 0.91 3.08
23 Turkey 221.23 0.84 3.58
24 Thailand 184.67 0.7 7.2
25 Netherlands 176.53 0.67 -0.41
26 Venezuela 164.15 0.62 25.75
27 Kazakhstan 157.52 0.6 13.52
28 Uzbekistan 132.58 0.5 5.03
29 Malaysia 132.04 0.5 0.87
30 Egypt 129.15 0.49 1.17
31 Belgium 126.86 0.48 0.63
32 Argentina 124.93 0.48 -7.55
33 Czechia 123.97 0.47 -2.5
34 Pakistan 112.9 0.43 7.12
35 Greece 105.0 0.4 -0.34
36 Romania 99.3 0.38 0.31
37 Iraq 96.54 0.37 0.22
38 Algeria 90.69 0.35 4.44
39 Nigeria 90.48 0.34 -10.38
40 United Arab Emirates 84.65 0.32 -16.53
41 Austria 71.97 0.27 2.57
42 Philippines 70.07 0.27 -0.11
43 Portugal 69.58 0.26 6.74
44 Vietnam 69.53 0.26 14.01
45 North Korea 68.64 0.26 -4.22
46 Finland 65.05 0.25 4.04
47 Kuwait 59.99 0.23 1.58
48 Israel 59.3 0.23 -5.91
49 Hungary 58.84 0.22 -1.65
50 Sweden 56.69 0.22 1.52
51 Colombia 55.9 0.21 -1.67
52 Denmark 55.54 0.21 -0.61
53 Chile 54.84 0.21 3.62
54 Belarus 53.84 0.2 -0.29
55 Libya 52.52 0.2 -1.11
56 Serbia 52.23 0.2 5.93
57 Bulgaria 46.24 0.18 -5.87
58 Ireland 46.08 0.18 -3.21
59 Qatar 45.07 0.17 -1.64
60 Switzerland 43.47 0.17 -3.59
61 Norway 42.55 0.16 -2.17
62 Slovakia 42.1 0.16 -2.74
63 Syria 40.35 0.15 -20.81
64 Singapore 40.21 0.15 4.37
65 Hong Kong 39.49 0.15 4.45
66 Morocco 37.31 0.14 1.36
67 New Zealand 34.54 0.13 0.47
68 Bangladesh 32.01 0.12 3.03
69 Turkmenistan 30.13 0.11 -11.47
70 Trinidad and Tobago 28.7 0.11 7.27
71 Azerbaijan 28.57 0.11 0.55
72 Oman 26.84 0.1 19.81
73 Peru 25.44 0.1 0.09
74 Cuba 25.15 0.1 1.92
75 Ecuador 24.83 0.09 6.06
76 Croatia 21.92 0.08 5.49
77 Dominican Republic 20.95 0.08 9.43
78 Tunisia 20.68 0.08 1.23
79 Bahrain 20.11 0.08 2.2
80 Yemen 16.58 0.06 -2.9
81 Slovenia 16.56 0.06 1.61
82 Jordan 16.42 0.06 5.2
83 Lebanon 16.24 0.06 -0.99
84 Angola 16.08 0.06 1.08
85 Estonia 15.36 0.06 -3.23
86 Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.17 0.05 6.86
87 Lithuania 12.7 0.05 0.57
88 Zimbabwe 11.9 0.05 -4.9
89 Sri Lanka 10.95 0.04 6.02
90 Guatemala 10.72 0.04 4.77
91 Bolivia 10.4 0.04 18.99
92 Jamaica 10.2 0.04 -3.53
93 Luxembourg 9.98 0.04 8.4
94 Myanmar 9.33 0.04 5.33
95 Mongolia 8.2 0.03 5.03
96 Kenya 7.89 0.03 -14.95
97 North Macedonia 7.83 0.03 -5.48
98 Sudan 7.63 0.03 26.86
99 Latvia 7.52 0.03 0.32
100 Cote d'Ivoire 7.45 0.03 -2.61
101 Cyprus 7.17 0.03 2.74
102 Ghana 6.48 0.02 8.62
103 Gabon 6.25 0.02 -3.54
104 Costa Rica 6.25 0.02 10.21
105 El Salvador 6.07 0.02 3.63
106 Honduras 5.95 0.02 4.95
107 Panama 5.82 0.02 -16.28
108 Cameroon 5.35 0.02 -3.81
109 Kyrgyzstan 4.92 0.02 27.5
110 Curacao 4.9 0.02 -3.59
111 Brunei 4.67 0.02 -10.02
112 Uruguay 4.56 0.02 -9.4
113 Senegal 4.44 0.02 4.2
114 Ethiopia 4.43 0.02 3.92
115 Moldova 4.05 0.02 7.0
116 Nicaragua 3.99 0.02 1.74
117 Botswana 3.98 0.02 3.33
118 Paraguay 3.86 0.01 4.38
119 Albania 3.75 0.01 16.38
120 Papua New Guinea 3.66 0.01 9.79
121 Tanzania 3.49 0.01 14.63
122 Georgia 3.35 0.01 -10.11
123 Armenia 3.08 0.01 -12.91
124 Iceland 2.99 0.01 4.43
125 Mauritius 2.88 0.01 0.77
126 Equatorial Guinea 2.76 0.01 -10.77
127 Malta 2.75 0.01 0.39
128 Congo 2.72 0.01 -34.89
129 Nepal 2.6 0.01 -19.77
130 Aruba 2.44 0.01 1.22
131 New Caledonia 2.39 0.01 27.47
132 Cambodia 2.15 0.01 -3.77
133 Benin 2.11 0.01 24.92
134 Bahamas 2.04 0.01 4.71
135 Namibia 1.97 0.01 -11.51
136 Zambia 1.96 0.01 3.99
137 Lesotho 1.91 0.01 1.56
138 Tajikistan 1.88 0.01 -17.94
139 Haiti 1.79 0.01 21.34
140 Montenegro 1.77 0.01 5.94
141 Democratic Republic of Congo 1.73 0.01 5.26
142 Guyana 1.71 0.01 -1.68
143 Guinea 1.62 0.01 3.99
144 Suriname 1.56 0.01 -33.97
145 Mozambique 1.54 0.01 -1.09
146 Uganda 1.45 0.01 2.06
147 Macao 1.39 0.01 -11.03
148 Afghanistan 1.34 0.01 25.43
149 Togo 1.32 0.01 14.11
150 Barbados 1.32 0.01 1.0
151 Mauritania 1.25 0.0 6.56
152 Madagascar 1.24 0.0 -29.1
153 Mali 1.21 0.0 4.1
154 Laos 1.17 0.0 9.7
155 Palestine 1.15 0.0 -14.4
156 Eswatini 1.08 0.0 -1.34
157 Burkina Faso 1.07 0.0 0.96
158 Malawi 0.86 0.0 10.73
159 Fiji 0.84 0.0 -16.79
160 Faroe Islands 0.73 0.0 -4.81
161 French Polynesia 0.73 0.0 0.0
162 Niger 0.68 0.0 5.98
163 South Sudan 0.65 0.0 27.45
164 Maldives 0.59 0.0 28.57
165 Greenland 0.58 0.0 -6.18
166 Bermuda 0.56 0.0 5.56
167 Somalia 0.56 0.0 11.76
168 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.54 0.0 -3.59
169 Andorra 0.53 0.0 1.4
170 Chad 0.53 0.0 4.34
171 Rwanda 0.52 0.0 -0.67
172 Eritrea 0.51 0.0 -20.13
173 Sierra Leone 0.5 0.0 35.64
174 Bhutan 0.5 0.0 6.97
175 Belize 0.43 0.0 -3.28
176 Liberia 0.43 0.0 3.5
177 Antigua and Barbuda 0.41 0.0 9.9
178 Djibouti 0.4 0.0 9.0
179 Cape Verde 0.38 0.0 9.47
180 Saint Lucia 0.36 0.0 0.0
181 Seychelles 0.35 0.0 1.06
182 Gambia 0.3 0.0 -1.22
183 East Timor 0.26 0.0 120.36
184 Solomon Islands 0.25 0.0 4.69
185 Central African Republic 0.24 0.0 -1.49
186 Liechtenstein 0.22 0.0 2.49
187 Burundi 0.21 0.0 3.57
188 Palau 0.21 0.0 -1.69
189 Grenada 0.21 0.0 5.66
190 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.2 0.0 12.5
191 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.19 0.0 4.08
192 Samoa 0.16 0.0 4.76
193 Guinea-Bissau 0.15 0.0 2.44
194 Micronesia (country) 0.15 0.0 -8.89
195 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.15 0.0 32.26
196 British Virgin Islands 0.14 0.0 14.71
197 Marshall Islands 0.11 0.0 7.14
198 Comoros 0.11 0.0 0.0
199 Dominica 0.1 0.0 -6.67
200 Tonga 0.1 0.0 16.67
201 Anguilla 0.08 0.0 0.0
202 Vanuatu 0.08 0.0 0.0
203 Nauru 0.08 0.0 -4.55
204 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0.07 0.0 -3.59
205 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.06 0.0 6.67
206 Sao Tome and Principe 0.06 0.0 14.29
207 Montserrat 0.05 0.0 85.71
208 Cook Islands 0.04 0.0 -14.29
209 Kiribati 0.04 0.0 0.0
210 Wallis and Futuna 0.03 0.0 0.0
211 Saint Helena 0.01 0.0 0.0
212 Tuvalu 0.01 0.0 0.0
213 Niue 0.01 0.0 0.0
214 Antarctica 0.0 0.0 0.0