CO2 Emissions World Ranking 2018

Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 2018.

Key questions

Which country produced the most CO₂ in 2018?

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

Which country produced the least CO₂ in 2018?

Tuvalu produced the least CO₂ out of all countries.

Rankings

Rank Country CO₂ (million tonnes) Global share (%) Change from previous year (%)
1 China 10353.93 28.16 3.42
2 United States 5377.8 14.63 3.18
3 India 2593.06 7.05 6.86
4 Russia 1712.49 4.66 2.78
5 Japan 1141.67 3.11 -3.8
6 Germany 754.81 2.05 -3.97
7 Iran 710.21 1.93 3.62
8 Saudi Arabia 686.9 1.87 0.89
9 South Korea 670.17 1.82 2.39
10 Indonesia 594.1 1.62 6.67
11 Canada 577.07 1.57 1.84
12 Brazil 478.0 1.3 -3.85
13 Mexico 470.29 1.28 1.0
14 South Africa 435.24 1.18 -0.94
15 Turkey 422.06 1.15 -2.05
16 Australia 415.35 1.13 0.41
17 United Kingdom 379.73 1.03 -1.97
18 Italy 349.83 0.95 -1.02
19 Poland 336.08 0.91 -0.2
20 France 322.08 0.88 -4.4
21 Kazakhstan 307.17 0.84 4.67
22 Thailand 288.35 0.78 1.76
23 Taiwan 283.42 0.77 -0.64
24 Spain 268.6 0.73 -1.82
25 Malaysia 262.21 0.71 7.42
26 Vietnam 257.72 0.7 12.23
27 Egypt 243.91 0.66 -6.23
28 Ukraine 231.66 0.63 3.85
29 United Arab Emirates 209.28 0.57 -1.51
30 Pakistan 205.06 0.56 -5.13
31 Iraq 183.75 0.5 3.84
32 Argentina 180.6 0.49 -3.37
33 Algeria 171.28 0.47 3.75
34 Netherlands 158.13 0.43 -2.51
35 Philippines 141.52 0.38 4.71
36 Czechia 106.36 0.29 -1.32
37 Nigeria 105.6 0.29 -6.35
38 Kuwait 105.55 0.29 2.16
39 Uzbekistan 102.29 0.28 -6.1
40 Venezuela 100.73 0.27 -27.12
41 Belgium 99.97 0.27 0.92
42 Qatar 95.46 0.26 -4.64
43 Colombia 87.11 0.24 -5.6
44 Chile 84.44 0.23 0.36
45 Bangladesh 82.56 0.22 2.25
46 Romania 80.28 0.22 0.79
47 Greece 71.78 0.2 -4.09
48 Austria 66.57 0.18 -4.36
49 Oman 66.14 0.18 -4.47
50 Turkmenistan 63.76 0.17 -0.93
51 Morocco 62.31 0.17 1.97
52 Belarus 62.16 0.17 4.67
53 Israel 59.99 0.16 1.94
54 Peru 55.85 0.15 1.8
55 Libya 54.02 0.15 1.09
56 Portugal 51.37 0.14 -6.78
57 Singapore 50.04 0.14 25.04
58 Hungary 49.53 0.13 -0.09
59 North Korea 47.63 0.13 -7.94
60 Finland 45.73 0.12 2.41
61 Mongolia 45.32 0.12 32.75
62 Norway 44.4 0.12 0.54
63 Serbia 44.32 0.12 -2.66
64 Bulgaria 43.48 0.12 -8.33
65 Hong Kong 42.6 0.12 0.4
66 Sweden 42.04 0.11 -0.99
67 Trinidad and Tobago 40.33 0.11 0.02
68 Ireland 39.01 0.11 -0.17
69 Ecuador 38.43 0.1 -1.9
70 Switzerland 36.87 0.1 -3.42
71 Slovakia 36.11 0.1 -0.02
72 New Zealand 35.7 0.1 0.05
73 Denmark 34.61 0.09 -0.16
74 Azerbaijan 34.58 0.09 -0.09
75 Myanmar 34.02 0.09 43.96
76 Bahrain 32.64 0.09 -0.6
77 Syria 32.42 0.09 14.0
78 Tunisia 31.13 0.08 -0.44
79 Lebanon 26.16 0.07 -5.98
80 Dominican Republic 25.76 0.07 7.24
81 Jordan 25.14 0.07 -2.6
82 Cuba 23.13 0.06 -7.27
83 Bolivia 22.5 0.06 1.49
84 Bosnia and Herzegovina 22.08 0.06 -0.37
85 Sudan 21.75 0.06 6.16
86 Angola 21.43 0.06 -5.23
87 Laos 20.56 0.06 4.44
88 Sri Lanka 20.1 0.05 -12.14
89 Kenya 18.84 0.05 6.37
90 Guatemala 18.5 0.05 6.81
91 Estonia 17.88 0.05 -4.56
92 Croatia 17.72 0.05 -5.44
93 Ethiopia 15.99 0.04 2.6
94 Ghana 15.19 0.04 22.16
95 Nepal 14.8 0.04 19.06
96 Slovenia 14.52 0.04 -0.66
97 Cambodia 13.93 0.04 11.69
98 Lithuania 13.43 0.04 1.12
99 Tanzania 11.84 0.03 5.38
100 Yemen 11.59 0.03 19.57
101 Senegal 11.33 0.03 5.3
102 Kyrgyzstan 11.17 0.03 19.34
103 Afghanistan 10.82 0.03 9.63
104 Panama 10.76 0.03 -4.16
105 Zimbabwe 10.71 0.03 15.26
106 Cote d'Ivoire 10.35 0.03 -13.74
107 Georgia 10.06 0.03 -1.08
108 Honduras 9.86 0.03 -3.62
109 Cameroon 9.65 0.03 0.7
110 Luxembourg 9.57 0.03 3.3
111 Brunei 9.34 0.03 0.38
112 Paraguay 8.4 0.02 5.9
113 Jamaica 8.09 0.02 3.7
114 Tajikistan 8.06 0.02 17.53
115 Costa Rica 8.01 0.02 -0.21
116 Latvia 7.86 0.02 8.96
117 Papua New Guinea 7.61 0.02 14.21
118 Botswana 7.5 0.02 6.03
119 Benin 7.43 0.02 9.26
120 Zambia 7.42 0.02 8.31
121 Cyprus 7.32 0.02 -2.43
122 Mozambique 7.01 0.02 1.52
123 North Macedonia 6.67 0.02 -6.71
124 Uruguay 6.57 0.02 6.63
125 Congo 6.54 0.02 15.81
126 El Salvador 6.26 0.02 4.91
127 Equatorial Guinea 6.01 0.02 -23.58
128 New Caledonia 5.91 0.02 5.9
129 Armenia 5.83 0.02 5.16
130 Uganda 5.52 0.02 2.51
131 Gabon 5.47 0.01 -6.89
132 Moldova 5.45 0.01 4.31
133 Nicaragua 5.2 0.01 -4.8
134 Burkina Faso 5.01 0.01 10.87
135 Mali 4.91 0.01 5.42
136 Albania 4.89 0.01 -7.52
137 Mauritius 4.46 0.01 -1.7
138 Curacao 4.31 0.01 -13.14
139 Namibia 4.15 0.01 -1.45
140 Madagascar 3.79 0.01 -7.95
141 Iceland 3.67 0.01 1.57
142 Mauritania 3.66 0.01 7.15
143 Haiti 3.41 0.01 8.63
144 Democratic Republic of Congo 3.38 0.01 8.79
145 Guinea 3.16 0.01 -2.38
146 Palestine 2.96 0.01 -9.46
147 Guyana 2.5 0.01 7.57
148 Bahamas 2.42 0.01 -3.5
149 Montenegro 2.4 0.01 14.11
150 Chad 2.38 0.01 1.68
151 Lesotho 2.37 0.01 -5.69
152 Togo 2.17 0.01 8.73
153 Suriname 2.09 0.01 -13.89
154 Niger 1.8 0.0 -19.84
155 Maldives 1.74 0.0 15.01
156 South Sudan 1.74 0.0 19.4
157 Malawi 1.72 0.0 40.12
158 Barbados 1.66 0.0 0.67
159 Malta 1.55 0.0 1.04
160 Bhutan 1.48 0.0 10.15
161 Fiji 1.41 0.0 3.54
162 Rwanda 1.29 0.0 11.46
163 Macao 1.24 0.0 -35.55
164 Eswatini 1.03 0.0 4.83
165 Sierra Leone 1.03 0.0 -5.42
166 French Polynesia 0.88 0.0 1.7
167 Aruba 0.87 0.0 -2.06
168 Faroe Islands 0.73 0.0 2.59
169 Bermuda 0.7 0.0 9.83
170 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.69 0.0 -2.59
171 Gambia 0.65 0.0 9.26
172 Burundi 0.65 0.0 25.76
173 Somalia 0.64 0.0 0.0
174 Eritrea 0.62 0.0 11.84
175 East Timor 0.62 0.0 -10.53
176 Antigua and Barbuda 0.62 0.0 1.82
177 Belize 0.6 0.0 -1.79
178 Seychelles 0.6 0.0 4.46
179 Greenland 0.54 0.0 0.15
180 Cape Verde 0.54 0.0 5.76
181 Saint Lucia 0.51 0.0 3.73
182 Andorra 0.49 0.0 6.3
183 Djibouti 0.43 0.0 11.01
184 Liberia 0.42 0.0 -52.66
185 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.36 0.0 3.12
186 Guinea-Bissau 0.31 0.0 2.41
187 Grenada 0.31 0.0 10.53
188 Comoros 0.29 0.0 9.59
189 Solomon Islands 0.29 0.0 1.28
190 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.25 0.0 1.52
191 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.24 0.0 11.86
192 Samoa 0.24 0.0 -2.99
193 Central African Republic 0.22 0.0 1.69
194 Palau 0.21 0.0 -1.69
195 Vanuatu 0.18 0.0 25.64
196 British Virgin Islands 0.16 0.0 -10.2
197 Dominica 0.16 0.0 4.76
198 Marshall Islands 0.15 0.0 0.0
199 Liechtenstein 0.14 0.0 -8.23
200 Micronesia (country) 0.14 0.0 0.0
201 Sao Tome and Principe 0.14 0.0 0.0
202 Tonga 0.14 0.0 0.0
203 Anguilla 0.13 0.0 2.86
204 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0.1 0.0 -3.57
205 Cook Islands 0.08 0.0 0.0
206 Kiribati 0.07 0.0 0.0
207 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.06 0.0 -11.11
208 Nauru 0.05 0.0 0.0
209 Montserrat 0.03 0.0 0.0
210 Wallis and Futuna 0.03 0.0 0.0
211 Niue 0.01 0.0 50.0
212 Saint Helena 0.01 0.0 0.0
213 Tuvalu 0.01 0.0 0.0