CO2 Emissions World Ranking 2017

Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 2017.

Key questions

Which country produced the most CO₂ in 2017?

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

Which country produced the least CO₂ in 2017?

Niue produced the least CO₂ out of all countries.

Rankings

Rank Country CO₂ (million tonnes) Global share (%) Change from previous year (%)
1 China 10011.15 27.79 2.52
2 United States 5212.16 14.47 -0.78
3 India 2426.61 6.74 3.06
4 Russia 1666.12 4.62 1.91
5 Japan 1186.8 3.29 -1.3
6 Germany 785.99 2.18 -1.97
7 Iran 685.4 1.9 8.14
8 Saudi Arabia 680.85 1.89 -2.38
9 South Korea 654.54 1.82 2.61
10 Canada 566.65 1.57 1.61
11 Indonesia 556.94 1.55 3.12
12 Brazil 497.12 1.38 0.89
13 Mexico 465.62 1.29 -2.95
14 South Africa 439.38 1.22 -3.85
15 Turkey 430.9 1.2 6.15
16 Australia 413.66 1.15 0.83
17 United Kingdom 387.37 1.08 -3.02
18 Italy 353.42 0.98 -1.5
19 France 336.9 0.94 0.87
20 Poland 336.77 0.93 4.09
21 Kazakhstan 293.48 0.81 5.68
22 Taiwan 285.25 0.79 1.97
23 Thailand 283.35 0.79 -0.25
24 Spain 273.59 0.76 5.38
25 Egypt 260.11 0.72 8.66
26 Malaysia 244.11 0.68 3.08
27 Vietnam 229.64 0.64 2.88
28 Ukraine 223.08 0.62 -4.65
29 Pakistan 216.16 0.6 10.4
30 United Arab Emirates 212.49 0.59 -6.23
31 Argentina 186.9 0.52 -1.59
32 Iraq 176.96 0.49 11.37
33 Algeria 165.09 0.46 4.17
34 Netherlands 162.2 0.45 -1.51
35 Venezuela 138.23 0.38 -9.29
36 Philippines 135.15 0.38 10.97
37 Nigeria 112.76 0.31 -3.57
38 Uzbekistan 108.93 0.3 -1.1
39 Czechia 107.78 0.3 1.03
40 Kuwait 103.31 0.29 -5.33
41 Qatar 100.11 0.28 14.56
42 Belgium 99.06 0.27 -0.57
43 Colombia 92.28 0.26 -7.43
44 Chile 84.14 0.23 -0.13
45 Bangladesh 80.74 0.22 5.96
46 Romania 79.65 0.22 3.83
47 Greece 74.84 0.21 4.88
48 Austria 69.61 0.19 3.54
49 Oman 69.23 0.19 5.31
50 Turkmenistan 64.36 0.18 -0.14
51 Morocco 61.11 0.17 4.53
52 Belarus 59.38 0.16 2.15
53 Israel 58.84 0.16 -3.79
54 Portugal 55.11 0.15 9.41
55 Peru 54.86 0.15 4.03
56 Libya 53.44 0.15 3.46
57 North Korea 51.74 0.14 87.64
58 Hungary 49.58 0.14 5.09
59 Bulgaria 47.43 0.13 4.62
60 Serbia 45.53 0.13 1.09
61 Finland 44.65 0.12 -5.49
62 Norway 44.17 0.12 -1.15
63 Sweden 42.46 0.12 -2.21
64 Hong Kong 42.43 0.12 -2.16
65 Trinidad and Tobago 40.32 0.11 1.06
66 Singapore 40.01 0.11 -0.68
67 Ecuador 39.17 0.11 -0.46
68 Ireland 39.08 0.11 -3.2
69 Switzerland 38.17 0.11 -2.57
70 Slovakia 36.11 0.1 3.44
71 New Zealand 35.69 0.1 4.49
72 Denmark 34.66 0.1 -6.1
73 Azerbaijan 34.61 0.1 -0.35
74 Mongolia 34.14 0.09 33.19
75 Bahrain 32.84 0.09 4.04
76 Tunisia 31.27 0.09 2.22
77 Syria 28.44 0.08 5.6
78 Lebanon 27.82 0.08 5.23
79 Jordan 25.81 0.07 4.52
80 Cuba 24.95 0.07 -11.44
81 Dominican Republic 24.02 0.07 -2.55
82 Myanmar 23.63 0.07 11.78
83 Sri Lanka 22.87 0.06 -0.5
84 Angola 22.62 0.06 -5.73
85 Bolivia 22.17 0.06 4.39
86 Bosnia and Herzegovina 22.16 0.06 1.96
87 Sudan 20.49 0.06 2.27
88 Laos 19.68 0.05 19.6
89 Croatia 18.74 0.05 3.51
90 Estonia 18.74 0.05 7.14
91 Kenya 17.71 0.05 -2.34
92 Guatemala 17.32 0.05 2.33
93 Ethiopia 15.58 0.04 8.03
94 Slovenia 14.62 0.04 1.09
95 Lithuania 13.29 0.04 1.25
96 Cambodia 12.48 0.03 14.23
97 Ghana 12.44 0.03 -10.63
98 Nepal 12.43 0.03 23.25
99 Cote d'Ivoire 12.0 0.03 0.16
100 Tanzania 11.23 0.03 9.99
101 Panama 11.22 0.03 7.51
102 Senegal 10.76 0.03 7.43
103 Honduras 10.23 0.03 5.24
104 Georgia 10.17 0.03 1.04
105 Afghanistan 9.87 0.03 8.83
106 Yemen 9.69 0.03 -3.12
107 Cameroon 9.58 0.03 -3.82
108 Kyrgyzstan 9.36 0.03 -2.71
109 Brunei 9.31 0.03 21.96
110 Zimbabwe 9.3 0.03 -11.75
111 Luxembourg 9.27 0.03 1.91
112 Costa Rica 8.03 0.02 2.2
113 Paraguay 7.93 0.02 10.28
114 Equatorial Guinea 7.86 0.02 4.02
115 Jamaica 7.8 0.02 -4.48
116 Cyprus 7.5 0.02 1.76
117 Latvia 7.22 0.02 0.06
118 North Macedonia 7.15 0.02 7.49
119 Botswana 7.08 0.02 11.49
120 Mozambique 6.91 0.02 -19.21
121 Tajikistan 6.86 0.02 20.48
122 Zambia 6.85 0.02 16.81
123 Benin 6.8 0.02 4.78
124 Papua New Guinea 6.66 0.02 -5.33
125 Uruguay 6.16 0.02 -5.5
126 El Salvador 5.97 0.02 -9.49
127 Gabon 5.88 0.02 -9.85
128 Congo 5.65 0.02 -1.36
129 New Caledonia 5.58 0.02 1.86
130 Armenia 5.54 0.02 6.48
131 Nicaragua 5.46 0.02 1.02
132 Uganda 5.39 0.01 12.35
133 Albania 5.29 0.01 14.27
134 Moldova 5.22 0.01 6.46
135 Curacao 4.96 0.01 -19.82
136 Mali 4.66 0.01 9.96
137 Mauritius 4.54 0.01 4.38
138 Burkina Faso 4.52 0.01 15.75
139 Namibia 4.22 0.01 4.07
140 Madagascar 4.12 0.01 26.05
141 Iceland 3.61 0.01 3.34
142 Mauritania 3.42 0.01 30.18
143 Palestine 3.27 0.01 1.07
144 Guinea 3.24 0.01 18.16
145 Haiti 3.14 0.01 5.36
146 Democratic Republic of Congo 3.1 0.01 21.22
147 Lesotho 2.51 0.01 13.58
148 Bahamas 2.51 0.01 13.6
149 Suriname 2.43 0.01 -16.93
150 Chad 2.34 0.01 -1.28
151 Guyana 2.33 0.01 -2.02
152 Niger 2.25 0.01 4.87
153 Montenegro 2.1 0.01 4.36
154 Togo 1.99 0.01 -13.87
155 Macao 1.93 0.01 8.23
156 Barbados 1.64 0.0 -2.9
157 Malta 1.53 0.0 12.87
158 Maldives 1.51 0.0 5.36
159 South Sudan 1.45 0.0 -14.62
160 Fiji 1.36 0.0 8.11
161 Bhutan 1.34 0.0 6.35
162 Malawi 1.23 0.0 2.0
163 Rwanda 1.16 0.0 10.18
164 Sierra Leone 1.09 0.0 -4.78
165 Eswatini 0.99 0.0 -6.6
166 Liberia 0.89 0.0 79.21
167 Aruba 0.89 0.0 0.83
168 French Polynesia 0.86 0.0 -0.84
169 Faroe Islands 0.71 0.0 12.21
170 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.71 0.0 -4.93
171 East Timor 0.69 0.0 7.26
172 Somalia 0.64 0.0 0.0
173 Bermuda 0.63 0.0 2.37
174 Belize 0.62 0.0 -1.75
175 Antigua and Barbuda 0.6 0.0 1.23
176 Gambia 0.59 0.0 0.62
177 Seychelles 0.58 0.0 3.97
178 Eritrea 0.56 0.0 -0.08
179 Greenland 0.54 0.0 3.27
180 Burundi 0.51 0.0 19.66
181 Cape Verde 0.51 0.0 2.96
182 Saint Lucia 0.49 0.0 3.08
183 Andorra 0.47 0.0 -0.78
184 Djibouti 0.39 0.0 3.06
185 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.35 0.0 6.67
186 Guinea-Bissau 0.3 0.0 0.0
187 Solomon Islands 0.29 0.0 -1.27
188 Grenada 0.28 0.0 4.11
189 Comoros 0.27 0.0 23.73
190 Samoa 0.25 0.0 3.08
191 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.24 0.0 1.54
192 Central African Republic 0.22 0.0 9.26
193 Palau 0.22 0.0 1.72
194 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.22 0.0 -10.61
195 British Virgin Islands 0.18 0.0 -22.22
196 Liechtenstein 0.16 0.0 3.96
197 Dominica 0.15 0.0 -10.64
198 Marshall Islands 0.15 0.0 2.56
199 Micronesia (country) 0.14 0.0 0.0
200 Vanuatu 0.14 0.0 -4.88
201 Sao Tome and Principe 0.14 0.0 -7.32
202 Tonga 0.14 0.0 8.82
203 Anguilla 0.13 0.0 -7.89
204 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0.1 0.0 0.0
205 Cook Islands 0.08 0.0 10.0
206 Kiribati 0.07 0.0 20.0
207 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.07 0.0 0.0
208 Nauru 0.05 0.0 7.14
209 Montserrat 0.03 0.0 0.0
210 Wallis and Futuna 0.03 0.0 0.0
211 Saint Helena 0.01 0.0 -25.0
212 Tuvalu 0.01 0.0 0.0
213 Niue 0.01 0.0 0.0