CO2 Emissions World Ranking 2005

Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 2005.

Key questions

Which country produced the most CO₂ in 2005?

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

Which country produced the least CO₂ in 2005?

Niue produced the least CO₂ out of all countries.

Rankings

Rank Country CO₂ (million tonnes) Global share (%) Change from previous year (%)
1 United States 6132.18 20.71 0.32
2 China 5882.11 19.86 12.74
3 Russia 1562.58 5.28 1.21
4 Japan 1290.3 4.36 0.58
5 India 1194.59 4.03 5.36
6 Germany 867.88 2.93 -0.99
7 Canada 572.85 1.93 -1.09
8 United Kingdom 570.34 1.93 -0.54
9 Italy 501.36 1.69 0.14
10 South Korea 498.69 1.68 1.49
11 Iran 466.78 1.58 5.58
12 Mexico 463.43 1.56 5.66
13 South Africa 416.2 1.41 -7.37
14 France 415.8 1.4 0.58
15 Saudi Arabia 412.41 1.39 1.11
16 Australia 386.18 1.3 0.79
17 Spain 368.34 1.24 4.34
18 Brazil 364.37 1.23 0.81
19 Indonesia 347.62 1.17 1.34
20 Poland 322.77 1.09 -0.32
21 Ukraine 313.53 1.06 0.94
22 Taiwan 266.89 0.9 2.9
23 Turkey 264.87 0.89 8.21
24 Thailand 214.33 0.72 3.37
25 Kazakhstan 200.04 0.68 7.34
26 Netherlands 177.93 0.6 -2.18
27 Malaysia 169.97 0.57 0.17
28 Egypt 168.22 0.57 10.25
29 Argentina 161.59 0.55 2.89
30 Venezuela 148.31 0.5 3.88
31 Pakistan 133.64 0.45 2.97
32 Czechia 125.69 0.42 -2.03
33 Belgium 125.64 0.42 -2.44
34 Uzbekistan 121.6 0.41 -5.81
35 United Arab Emirates 114.4 0.39 2.41
36 Iraq 114.02 0.39 1.08
37 Greece 113.89 0.38 4.02
38 Algeria 110.99 0.37 21.02
39 Nigeria 102.32 0.35 7.08
40 Romania 101.36 0.34 -1.88
41 Vietnam 95.85 0.32 7.77
42 Austria 79.09 0.27 1.8
43 North Korea 75.01 0.25 4.58
44 Kuwait 74.43 0.25 13.4
45 Philippines 73.16 0.25 0.68
46 Portugal 69.64 0.24 3.47
47 Chile 61.13 0.21 3.21
48 Colombia 60.16 0.2 10.09
49 Hungary 60.14 0.2 0.26
50 Belarus 59.31 0.2 1.81
51 Finland 57.06 0.19 -17.23
52 Israel 56.52 0.19 -3.67
53 Libya 55.99 0.19 -1.52
54 Sweden 53.88 0.18 -4.67
55 Serbia 51.63 0.17 -14.18
56 Denmark 51.53 0.17 -6.47
57 Syria 50.75 0.17 -1.04
58 Bulgaria 50.68 0.17 2.14
59 Ireland 48.15 0.16 4.3
60 Turkmenistan 47.93 0.16 -2.89
61 Qatar 47.55 0.16 0.49
62 Switzerland 45.78 0.15 1.2
63 Morocco 44.66 0.15 5.77
64 Hong Kong 43.73 0.15 5.2
65 Norway 43.26 0.15 -2.2
66 Slovakia 42.93 0.14 0.01
67 Singapore 39.6 0.13 -3.41
68 Trinidad and Tobago 38.23 0.13 16.86
69 Bangladesh 37.72 0.13 4.82
70 New Zealand 37.43 0.13 4.43
71 Azerbaijan 34.19 0.12 6.02
72 Oman 31.6 0.11 8.88
73 Ecuador 30.59 0.1 4.55
74 Peru 30.32 0.1 7.01
75 Cuba 25.68 0.09 4.6
76 Bahrain 24.49 0.08 15.48
77 Croatia 23.3 0.08 1.94
78 Tunisia 22.55 0.08 2.04
79 Yemen 21.66 0.07 8.43
80 Jordan 20.44 0.07 9.46
81 Dominican Republic 17.94 0.06 3.5
82 Estonia 17.09 0.06 -1.34
83 Slovenia 16.94 0.06 1.38
84 Lebanon 16.65 0.06 -3.24
85 Bosnia and Herzegovina 16.05 0.05 3.77
86 Angola 15.39 0.05 -9.57
87 Lithuania 13.9 0.05 4.6
88 Bolivia 12.31 0.04 11.61
89 Guatemala 12.11 0.04 8.31
90 Luxembourg 12.08 0.04 2.18
91 Sri Lanka 11.94 0.04 -1.75
92 Myanmar 11.56 0.04 -8.04
93 Zimbabwe 10.7 0.04 13.47
94 Sudan 10.56 0.04 -2.83
95 Jamaica 10.42 0.04 -1.49
96 North Macedonia 8.6 0.03 4.5
97 Kenya 8.55 0.03 12.72
98 Mongolia 8.52 0.03 0.16
99 Cyprus 7.96 0.03 2.2
100 Latvia 7.81 0.03 1.03
101 Cote d'Ivoire 7.56 0.03 2.41
102 Panama 6.97 0.02 22.07
103 Honduras 6.83 0.02 -4.99
104 Costa Rica 6.72 0.02 -1.73
105 El Salvador 6.3 0.02 0.7
106 Gabon 6.22 0.02 -2.56
107 Equatorial Guinea 6.21 0.02 1.15
108 Ghana 6.11 0.02 -5.23
109 Uruguay 5.73 0.02 2.91
110 Senegal 5.54 0.02 5.74
111 Kyrgyzstan 5.52 0.02 -4.98
112 Brunei 5.43 0.02 -3.76
113 Cameroon 5.42 0.02 -4.82
114 Tanzania 5.36 0.02 26.88
115 Curacao 5.1 0.02 -0.89
116 Georgia 5.01 0.02 17.37
117 Papua New Guinea 4.98 0.02 6.09
118 Ethiopia 4.96 0.02 -3.92
119 Moldova 4.94 0.02 7.03
120 Armenia 4.38 0.01 18.56
121 Congo 4.35 0.01 22.64
122 Nicaragua 4.27 0.01 -2.46
123 Albania 4.26 0.01 2.03
124 Botswana 4.09 0.01 5.08
125 Paraguay 3.78 0.01 -6.93
126 Mauritius 3.29 0.01 6.64
127 Nepal 2.99 0.01 15.66
128 Iceland 2.98 0.01 -4.21
129 New Caledonia 2.81 0.01 11.72
130 Palestine 2.74 0.01 24.87
131 Aruba 2.72 0.01 3.92
132 Malta 2.65 0.01 -7.0
133 Namibia 2.53 0.01 12.75
134 Benin 2.49 0.01 -4.0
135 Tajikistan 2.44 0.01 -4.73
136 Democratic Republic of Congo 2.29 0.01 12.8
137 Zambia 2.24 0.01 6.58
138 Cambodia 2.21 0.01 -1.47
139 Uganda 2.02 0.01 25.53
140 Lesotho 2.01 0.01 1.48
141 Bahamas 1.91 0.01 -6.98
142 Afghanistan 1.89 0.01 52.72
143 Guinea 1.82 0.01 3.53
144 Mozambique 1.77 0.01 -5.06
145 Montenegro 1.75 0.01 -14.23
146 Madagascar 1.74 0.01 -3.51
147 Haiti 1.72 0.01 4.38
148 Togo 1.72 0.01 -1.28
149 Macao 1.68 0.01 6.25
150 Guyana 1.62 0.01 -15.97
151 Suriname 1.59 0.01 2.1
152 Mali 1.45 0.0 3.39
153 Mauritania 1.44 0.0 3.78
154 Barbados 1.43 0.0 3.32
155 Laos 1.34 0.0 4.25
156 Burkina Faso 1.11 0.0 0.66
157 Fiji 1.03 0.0 -20.68
158 Eswatini 1.01 0.0 1.47
159 Chad 0.93 0.0 2.57
160 South Sudan 0.88 0.0 -4.2
161 Malawi 0.85 0.0 -5.84
162 French Polynesia 0.83 0.0 7.62
163 Faroe Islands 0.72 0.0 -3.43
164 Niger 0.69 0.0 -12.71
165 Liberia 0.65 0.0 19.05
166 Greenland 0.64 0.0 0.64
167 Maldives 0.6 0.0 -9.89
168 Eritrea 0.59 0.0 -7.53
169 Bermuda 0.58 0.0 0.0
170 Andorra 0.58 0.0 2.61
171 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.56 0.0 -0.89
172 Somalia 0.56 0.0 0.65
173 Bhutan 0.55 0.0 24.16
174 Rwanda 0.51 0.0 -0.3
175 Antigua and Barbuda 0.48 0.0 6.5
176 Cape Verde 0.45 0.0 5.17
177 Sierra Leone 0.43 0.0 -18.31
178 Belize 0.42 0.0 7.48
179 Djibouti 0.41 0.0 1.8
180 Saint Lucia 0.39 0.0 -3.64
181 Seychelles 0.38 0.0 2.97
182 Gambia 0.32 0.0 1.15
183 East Timor 0.32 0.0 -35.38
184 Solomon Islands 0.28 0.0 2.67
185 Liechtenstein 0.23 0.0 -0.18
186 Palau 0.22 0.0 1.69
187 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.22 0.0 0.0
188 Central African Republic 0.22 0.0 -1.67
189 Grenada 0.22 0.0 5.36
190 Guinea-Bissau 0.21 0.0 5.45
191 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.2 0.0 -6.9
192 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.19 0.0 18.18
193 Samoa 0.17 0.0 2.22
194 British Virgin Islands 0.16 0.0 7.14
195 Burundi 0.16 0.0 -18.18
196 Dominica 0.15 0.0 5.13
197 Comoros 0.14 0.0 -2.5
198 Micronesia (country) 0.12 0.0 -17.95
199 Marshall Islands 0.11 0.0 -3.12
200 Tonga 0.11 0.0 3.33
201 Anguilla 0.11 0.0 7.14
202 Sao Tome and Principe 0.08 0.0 5.0
203 Vanuatu 0.08 0.0 5.0
204 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0.07 0.0 -0.89
205 Cook Islands 0.06 0.0 13.33
206 Nauru 0.06 0.0 -5.56
207 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.06 0.0 6.25
208 Kiribati 0.05 0.0 18.18
209 Montserrat 0.04 0.0 -15.38
210 Wallis and Futuna 0.03 0.0 14.29
211 Saint Helena 0.01 0.0 0.0
212 Tuvalu 0.01 0.0 0.0
213 Antarctica 0.01 0.0 0.0
214 Niue 0.0 0.0 0.0