CO2 Emissions World Ranking 2016

Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 2016.

Key questions

Which country produced the most CO₂ in 2016?

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

Which country produced the least CO₂ in 2016?

Niue produced the least CO₂ out of all countries.

Rankings

Rank Country CO₂ (million tonnes) Global share (%) Change from previous year (%)
1 China 9765.03 27.54 -1.03
2 United States 5252.93 14.81 -2.3
3 India 2354.66 6.64 5.39
4 Russia 1634.89 4.61 -0.23
5 Japan 1202.45 3.39 -1.69
6 Germany 801.74 2.26 0.46
7 Saudi Arabia 697.42 1.97 2.74
8 South Korea 637.91 1.8 0.59
9 Iran 633.83 1.79 0.36
10 Canada 557.69 1.57 -2.28
11 Indonesia 540.09 1.52 0.17
12 Brazil 492.75 1.39 -6.92
13 Mexico 479.79 1.35 0.06
14 South Africa 456.97 1.29 2.41
15 Australia 410.25 1.16 2.21
16 Turkey 405.95 1.14 5.46
17 United Kingdom 399.43 1.13 -5.45
18 Italy 358.81 1.01 -0.86
19 France 334.01 0.94 0.78
20 Poland 323.55 0.91 3.46
21 Thailand 284.05 0.8 2.51
22 Taiwan 279.73 0.79 1.4
23 Kazakhstan 277.7 0.78 -0.35
24 Spain 259.63 0.73 -4.11
25 Egypt 239.39 0.68 6.64
26 Malaysia 236.82 0.67 0.56
27 Ukraine 233.96 0.66 4.55
28 United Arab Emirates 226.6 0.64 0.41
29 Vietnam 223.2 0.63 3.59
30 Pakistan 195.79 0.55 17.64
31 Argentina 189.92 0.54 -0.95
32 Netherlands 164.69 0.46 0.54
33 Iraq 158.89 0.45 11.91
34 Algeria 158.48 0.45 -1.0
35 Venezuela 152.39 0.43 -8.12
36 Philippines 121.79 0.34 8.31
37 Nigeria 116.93 0.33 7.06
38 Uzbekistan 110.14 0.31 6.21
39 Kuwait 109.13 0.31 16.51
40 Czechia 106.68 0.3 1.58
41 Colombia 99.69 0.28 3.01
42 Belgium 99.62 0.28 -1.51
43 Qatar 87.39 0.25 -4.18
44 Chile 84.25 0.24 3.02
45 Romania 76.71 0.22 -1.69
46 Bangladesh 76.2 0.21 4.16
47 Greece 71.36 0.2 -4.76
48 Austria 67.23 0.19 1.3
49 Oman 65.74 0.19 -2.43
50 Turkmenistan 64.45 0.18 0.2
51 Israel 61.16 0.17 -2.83
52 Morocco 58.46 0.16 -0.06
53 Belarus 58.13 0.16 -1.13
54 Peru 52.73 0.15 7.12
55 Libya 51.65 0.15 -5.32
56 Portugal 50.37 0.14 -3.52
57 Finland 47.25 0.13 6.93
58 Hungary 47.18 0.13 0.99
59 Bulgaria 45.34 0.13 -5.79
60 Serbia 45.04 0.13 2.89
61 Norway 44.68 0.13 -1.79
62 Sweden 43.41 0.12 -0.01
63 Hong Kong 43.37 0.12 2.28
64 Ireland 40.37 0.11 4.26
65 Singapore 40.29 0.11 -34.94
66 Trinidad and Tobago 39.89 0.11 -12.44
67 Ecuador 39.36 0.11 -4.65
68 Switzerland 39.18 0.11 1.17
69 Denmark 36.92 0.1 5.14
70 Slovakia 34.91 0.1 1.28
71 Azerbaijan 34.73 0.1 0.13
72 New Zealand 34.15 0.1 -4.63
73 Bahrain 31.56 0.09 -2.77
74 Tunisia 30.59 0.09 -2.63
75 Cuba 28.17 0.08 -4.4
76 North Korea 27.57 0.08 11.97
77 Syria 26.94 0.08 -5.83
78 Lebanon 26.44 0.07 2.75
79 Mongolia 25.63 0.07 10.08
80 Jordan 24.7 0.07 -3.33
81 Dominican Republic 24.64 0.07 4.89
82 Angola 23.99 0.07 -7.83
83 Sri Lanka 22.99 0.06 16.76
84 Bosnia and Herzegovina 21.73 0.06 17.71
85 Bolivia 21.24 0.06 6.8
86 Myanmar 21.14 0.06 -3.41
87 Sudan 20.04 0.06 -5.44
88 Kenya 18.13 0.05 6.68
89 Croatia 18.11 0.05 1.6
90 Estonia 17.49 0.05 10.52
91 Guatemala 16.93 0.05 6.11
92 Laos 16.46 0.05 78.33
93 Slovenia 14.46 0.04 5.96
94 Ethiopia 14.42 0.04 13.61
95 Ghana 13.92 0.04 -4.47
96 Lithuania 13.12 0.04 0.51
97 Cote d'Ivoire 11.98 0.03 25.41
98 Cambodia 10.92 0.03 30.55
99 Zimbabwe 10.53 0.03 -14.05
100 Panama 10.44 0.03 -3.24
101 Tanzania 10.21 0.03 5.04
102 Nepal 10.09 0.03 46.06
103 Georgia 10.07 0.03 3.19
104 Senegal 10.02 0.03 1.73
105 Yemen 10.01 0.03 -28.94
106 Cameroon 9.96 0.03 1.09
107 Honduras 9.72 0.03 -6.05
108 Kyrgyzstan 9.62 0.03 -6.27
109 Luxembourg 9.09 0.03 -2.75
110 Afghanistan 9.07 0.03 -7.39
111 Mozambique 8.55 0.02 26.99
112 Jamaica 8.16 0.02 2.06
113 Costa Rica 7.86 0.02 6.07
114 Brunei 7.63 0.02 10.09
115 Equatorial Guinea 7.56 0.02 7.46
116 Cyprus 7.37 0.02 5.77
117 Latvia 7.21 0.02 -0.71
118 Paraguay 7.19 0.02 18.94
119 Papua New Guinea 7.04 0.02 5.97
120 North Macedonia 6.65 0.02 -1.52
121 El Salvador 6.6 0.02 -1.08
122 Gabon 6.52 0.02 0.71
123 Uruguay 6.52 0.02 -3.27
124 Benin 6.49 0.02 21.86
125 Botswana 6.35 0.02 17.1
126 Curacao 6.19 0.02 -15.5
127 Zambia 5.86 0.02 15.78
128 Congo 5.73 0.02 1.7
129 Tajikistan 5.69 0.02 7.36
130 New Caledonia 5.48 0.02 12.4
131 Nicaragua 5.41 0.02 -0.46
132 Armenia 5.2 0.01 -4.87
133 Moldova 4.9 0.01 2.55
134 Uganda 4.8 0.01 5.96
135 Albania 4.63 0.01 -1.7
136 Mauritius 4.35 0.01 3.22
137 Mali 4.23 0.01 29.04
138 Namibia 4.05 0.01 5.19
139 Burkina Faso 3.9 0.01 5.09
140 Iceland 3.5 0.01 -1.36
141 Madagascar 3.27 0.01 1.25
142 Palestine 3.23 0.01 7.58
143 Haiti 2.98 0.01 11.98
144 Suriname 2.92 0.01 7.64
145 Guinea 2.74 0.01 11.83
146 Mauritania 2.63 0.01 -12.5
147 Democratic Republic of Congo 2.56 0.01 -21.89
148 Guyana 2.37 0.01 18.54
149 Chad 2.37 0.01 0.97
150 Togo 2.31 0.01 24.08
151 Lesotho 2.21 0.01 -1.31
152 Bahamas 2.21 0.01 -1.63
153 Niger 2.15 0.01 -2.76
154 Montenegro 2.02 0.01 -9.98
155 Macao 1.78 0.01 0.62
156 South Sudan 1.7 0.0 -10.92
157 Barbados 1.69 0.0 0.43
158 Maldives 1.44 0.0 12.32
159 Malta 1.36 0.0 -18.55
160 Bhutan 1.26 0.0 19.39
161 Fiji 1.26 0.0 -4.56
162 Malawi 1.21 0.0 11.33
163 Sierra Leone 1.14 0.0 5.37
164 Eswatini 1.06 0.0 21.52
165 Rwanda 1.05 0.0 8.06
166 Aruba 0.88 0.0 -1.63
167 French Polynesia 0.87 0.0 2.6
168 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.74 0.0 0.0
169 East Timor 0.64 0.0 9.05
170 Somalia 0.64 0.0 1.16
171 Faroe Islands 0.63 0.0 3.61
172 Belize 0.63 0.0 -2.29
173 Bermuda 0.62 0.0 14.97
174 Antigua and Barbuda 0.6 0.0 2.52
175 Gambia 0.59 0.0 1.26
176 Eritrea 0.56 0.0 0.57
177 Seychelles 0.55 0.0 11.03
178 Greenland 0.53 0.0 0.17
179 Liberia 0.5 0.0 6.4
180 Cape Verde 0.49 0.0 0.75
181 Saint Lucia 0.48 0.0 -0.76
182 Andorra 0.47 0.0 0.79
183 Burundi 0.43 0.0 20.62
184 Djibouti 0.38 0.0 -11.93
185 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.33 0.0 5.88
186 Guinea-Bissau 0.3 0.0 9.21
187 Solomon Islands 0.29 0.0 -1.25
188 Grenada 0.27 0.0 2.82
189 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.24 0.0 3.12
190 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.24 0.0 1.56
191 Samoa 0.24 0.0 4.84
192 British Virgin Islands 0.23 0.0 1.61
193 Comoros 0.22 0.0 20.41
194 Palau 0.21 0.0 3.57
195 Central African Republic 0.2 0.0 10.2
196 Dominica 0.17 0.0 -2.08
197 Sao Tome and Principe 0.15 0.0 10.81
198 Vanuatu 0.15 0.0 10.81
199 Liechtenstein 0.15 0.0 -6.22
200 Marshall Islands 0.14 0.0 0.0
201 Micronesia (country) 0.14 0.0 0.0
202 Anguilla 0.14 0.0 0.0
203 Tonga 0.12 0.0 6.25
204 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0.1 0.0 7.69
205 Cook Islands 0.07 0.0 -9.09
206 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.07 0.0 0.0
207 Kiribati 0.05 0.0 0.0
208 Nauru 0.05 0.0 -6.67
209 Montserrat 0.03 0.0 -46.67
210 Wallis and Futuna 0.03 0.0 16.67
211 Saint Helena 0.01 0.0 33.33
212 Tuvalu 0.01 0.0 0.0
213 Niue 0.01 0.0 0.0