CO2 Emissions World Ranking 2003

Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 2003.

Key questions

Which country produced the most CO₂ in 2003?

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

Which country produced the least CO₂ in 2003?

Niue produced the least CO₂ out of all countries.

Rankings

Rank Country CO₂ (million tonnes) Global share (%) Change from previous year (%)
1 United States 6010.15 21.72 1.07
2 China 4841.12 17.5 17.99
3 Russia 1537.02 5.55 2.01
4 Japan 1287.49 4.65 0.66
5 India 1067.74 3.86 3.45
6 Germany 894.5 3.23 -0.48
7 Canada 580.79 2.1 3.03
8 United Kingdom 571.62 2.07 2.02
9 Italy 495.09 1.79 3.77
10 South Korea 485.21 1.75 1.92
11 Mexico 435.97 1.58 6.26
12 France 411.96 1.49 1.48
13 Iran 410.97 1.49 3.51
14 South Africa 404.41 1.46 13.43
15 Australia 369.63 1.34 1.96
16 Saudi Arabia 351.41 1.27 1.24
17 Brazil 344.64 1.25 -0.9
18 Indonesia 339.36 1.23 10.01
19 Spain 336.33 1.22 1.32
20 Poland 318.95 1.15 4.19
21 Ukraine 307.25 1.11 3.83
22 Taiwan 249.13 0.9 4.43
23 Turkey 236.77 0.86 7.02
24 Thailand 191.09 0.69 3.48
25 Netherlands 179.96 0.65 1.95
26 Kazakhstan 175.85 0.64 11.64
27 Venezuela 154.26 0.56 -6.03
28 Malaysia 153.38 0.55 16.17
29 Egypt 149.92 0.54 16.08
30 Argentina 134.48 0.49 7.64
31 Uzbekistan 130.29 0.47 -1.72
32 Belgium 128.25 0.46 1.09
33 Czechia 127.57 0.46 2.91
34 Pakistan 117.46 0.42 4.04
35 Greece 109.07 0.39 3.87
36 United Arab Emirates 106.44 0.38 25.75
37 Romania 103.84 0.38 4.57
38 Iraq 101.27 0.37 4.9
39 Nigeria 100.76 0.36 11.37
40 Algeria 94.58 0.34 4.29
41 Austria 77.4 0.28 7.54
42 Vietnam 77.26 0.28 11.12
43 Finland 72.66 0.26 11.7
44 North Korea 70.14 0.25 2.18
45 Philippines 70.11 0.25 0.05
46 Portugal 64.48 0.23 -7.33
47 Israel 62.41 0.23 5.25
48 Kuwait 62.34 0.23 3.92
49 Hungary 61.61 0.22 4.71
50 Denmark 60.64 0.22 9.17
51 Colombia 57.38 0.21 2.64
52 Sweden 57.29 0.21 1.07
53 Serbia 55.82 0.2 6.88
54 Libya 55.48 0.2 5.62
55 Chile 55.1 0.2 0.48
56 Belarus 55.09 0.2 2.31
57 Syria 54.98 0.2 36.25
58 Bulgaria 50.59 0.18 9.41
59 Qatar 46.51 0.17 3.21
60 Ireland 45.68 0.17 -0.86
61 Switzerland 44.65 0.16 2.72
62 Norway 43.9 0.16 3.17
63 Hong Kong 43.2 0.16 9.41
64 Slovakia 42.42 0.15 0.78
65 Turkmenistan 40.57 0.15 34.64
66 Singapore 39.53 0.14 -1.68
67 Morocco 36.57 0.13 -1.97
68 New Zealand 36.24 0.13 4.93
69 Oman 34.36 0.12 27.99
70 Bangladesh 33.5 0.12 4.65
71 Trinidad and Tobago 32.39 0.12 12.85
72 Azerbaijan 30.49 0.11 6.71
73 Ecuador 27.07 0.1 9.04
74 Cuba 25.57 0.09 1.65
75 Peru 24.68 0.09 -3.0
76 Croatia 23.23 0.08 5.98
77 Dominican Republic 21.35 0.08 1.89
78 Tunisia 21.14 0.08 2.23
79 Bahrain 20.98 0.08 4.3
80 Lebanon 18.53 0.07 14.07
81 Yemen 18.48 0.07 11.46
82 Angola 17.48 0.06 8.73
83 Estonia 17.25 0.06 12.32
84 Jordan 16.98 0.06 3.42
85 Slovenia 16.27 0.06 -1.77
86 Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.36 0.05 1.31
87 Lithuania 12.69 0.05 -0.05
88 Bolivia 10.97 0.04 5.43
89 Sri Lanka 10.95 0.04 0.05
90 Jamaica 10.67 0.04 4.55
91 Zimbabwe 10.61 0.04 -10.81
92 Luxembourg 10.45 0.04 4.73
93 Guatemala 10.45 0.04 -2.55
94 Myanmar 10.0 0.04 7.17
95 North Macedonia 8.53 0.03 8.89
96 Sudan 8.52 0.03 11.55
97 Mongolia 7.93 0.03 -3.24
98 Latvia 7.73 0.03 2.73
99 Cyprus 7.56 0.03 5.44
100 Gabon 6.75 0.02 7.93
101 Kenya 6.7 0.02 -15.12
102 Honduras 6.69 0.02 12.47
103 Ghana 6.68 0.02 3.11
104 Costa Rica 6.58 0.02 5.4
105 El Salvador 6.43 0.02 6.01
106 Panama 6.09 0.02 4.62
107 Cameroon 5.7 0.02 6.62
108 Brunei 5.6 0.02 19.87
109 Kyrgyzstan 5.38 0.02 9.32
110 Cote d'Ivoire 5.3 0.02 -28.85
111 Senegal 4.93 0.02 11.06
112 Curacao 4.9 0.02 0.07
113 Ethiopia 4.87 0.02 9.9
114 Uruguay 4.53 0.02 -0.68
115 Moldova 4.4 0.02 8.7
116 Nicaragua 4.34 0.02 8.66
117 Albania 4.3 0.02 14.81
118 Papua New Guinea 4.06 0.01 10.78
119 Paraguay 4.03 0.01 4.52
120 Botswana 3.83 0.01 -3.78
121 Georgia 3.73 0.01 11.45
122 Tanzania 3.69 0.01 5.78
123 Armenia 3.46 0.01 12.31
124 Congo 3.26 0.01 19.77
125 Equatorial Guinea 3.13 0.01 13.47
126 Mauritius 3.06 0.01 6.1
127 Iceland 2.99 0.01 -0.22
128 Malta 2.96 0.01 7.78
129 Nepal 2.81 0.01 8.24
130 New Caledonia 2.73 0.01 13.93
131 Aruba 2.56 0.01 5.11
132 Benin 2.39 0.01 13.46
133 Cambodia 2.25 0.01 4.77
134 Democratic Republic of Congo 2.1 0.01 20.87
135 Namibia 2.09 0.01 6.13
136 Zambia 2.07 0.01 5.79
137 Tajikistan 2.07 0.01 10.31
138 Bahamas 2.07 0.01 1.62
139 Lesotho 1.93 0.01 1.35
140 Montenegro 1.89 0.01 6.96
141 Guyana 1.86 0.01 8.33
142 Mozambique 1.86 0.01 20.72
143 Togo 1.8 0.01 36.47
144 Haiti 1.7 0.01 -4.76
145 Guinea 1.7 0.01 4.74
146 Madagascar 1.69 0.01 36.92
147 Afghanistan 1.56 0.01 16.3
148 Suriname 1.54 0.01 -1.43
149 Uganda 1.51 0.01 4.6
150 Macao 1.42 0.01 2.37
151 Barbados 1.36 0.0 3.19
152 Mauritania 1.29 0.0 3.23
153 Palestine 1.28 0.0 10.79
154 Mali 1.25 0.0 3.03
155 Laos 1.22 0.0 4.73
156 Burkina Faso 1.19 0.0 10.94
157 Eswatini 1.0 0.0 -7.12
158 Fiji 0.99 0.0 18.42
159 Malawi 0.92 0.0 7.27
160 Chad 0.88 0.0 67.27
161 French Polynesia 0.78 0.0 7.58
162 Eritrea 0.78 0.0 53.25
163 Niger 0.74 0.0 8.62
164 Faroe Islands 0.73 0.0 1.01
165 South Sudan 0.73 0.0 11.72
166 Greenland 0.65 0.0 11.92
167 Bermuda 0.56 0.0 0.66
168 Somalia 0.56 0.0 0.66
169 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.54 0.0 0.07
170 Andorra 0.53 0.0 0.69
171 Sierra Leone 0.53 0.0 6.57
172 Rwanda 0.51 0.0 -1.88
173 Maldives 0.51 0.0 -14.81
174 Bhutan 0.49 0.0 -0.74
175 Liberia 0.46 0.0 7.48
176 Belize 0.43 0.0 0.0
177 Antigua and Barbuda 0.43 0.0 5.41
178 Djibouti 0.42 0.0 5.5
179 Cape Verde 0.41 0.0 8.65
180 Saint Lucia 0.38 0.0 5.1
181 Seychelles 0.34 0.0 -2.11
182 Gambia 0.3 0.0 0.0
183 Solomon Islands 0.26 0.0 4.48
184 East Timor 0.25 0.0 -5.1
185 Liechtenstein 0.23 0.0 4.24
186 Central African Republic 0.22 0.0 -7.58
187 Grenada 0.22 0.0 5.36
188 Palau 0.21 0.0 0.0
189 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.2 0.0 0.0
190 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.2 0.0 5.88
191 Guinea-Bissau 0.19 0.0 26.19
192 Burundi 0.17 0.0 -18.97
193 Micronesia (country) 0.16 0.0 7.32
194 Samoa 0.16 0.0 -2.27
195 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.16 0.0 4.88
196 British Virgin Islands 0.15 0.0 2.56
197 Comoros 0.14 0.0 27.59
198 Dominica 0.12 0.0 14.29
199 Tonga 0.12 0.0 14.29
200 Marshall Islands 0.11 0.0 -3.33
201 Anguilla 0.09 0.0 4.35
202 Vanuatu 0.08 0.0 0.0
203 Nauru 0.07 0.0 -14.29
204 Sao Tome and Principe 0.07 0.0 12.5
205 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0.07 0.0 0.07
206 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.06 0.0 6.25
207 Cook Islands 0.05 0.0 16.67
208 Kiribati 0.04 0.0 10.0
209 Montserrat 0.04 0.0 -23.08
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 Antarctica 0.0 0.0 0.0
214 Niue 0.0 0.0 -50.0