CO2 Emissions World Ranking 2020

Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 2020.

Key questions

Which country produced the most CO₂ in 2020?

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

Which country produced the least CO₂ in 2020?

Niue produced the least CO₂ out of all countries.

Rankings

Rank Country CO₂ (million tonnes) Global share (%) Change from previous year (%)
1 China 10914.01 31.18 1.8
2 United States 4714.63 13.47 -10.4
3 India 2421.55 6.92 -7.32
4 Russia 1632.93 4.66 -4.23
5 Japan 1039.8 2.97 -5.86
6 Iran 679.01 1.94 -2.25
7 Germany 647.25 1.85 -8.51
8 Saudi Arabia 610.77 1.74 -13.63
9 Indonesia 605.98 1.73 -6.9
10 South Korea 597.63 1.71 -7.5
11 Canada 522.85 1.49 -9.63
12 Brazil 444.5 1.27 -6.12
13 Mexico 442.29 1.26 -5.56
14 South Africa 434.83 1.24 -6.57
15 Turkey 412.93 1.18 2.54
16 Australia 396.69 1.13 -4.6
17 Vietnam 363.34 1.04 6.31
18 United Kingdom 326.26 0.93 -10.55
19 Italy 303.28 0.87 -10.91
20 Poland 302.44 0.86 -4.8
21 France 281.54 0.8 -10.75
22 Thailand 271.85 0.78 -3.55
23 Taiwan 271.79 0.78 -0.79
24 Malaysia 269.25 0.77 0.66
25 Kazakhstan 255.49 0.73 -7.19
26 Egypt 227.64 0.65 -11.13
27 United Arab Emirates 216.77 0.62 -1.27
28 Spain 213.63 0.61 -14.78
29 Ukraine 206.82 0.59 -6.81
30 Pakistan 200.6 0.57 -2.65
31 Algeria 169.89 0.49 -4.86
32 Argentina 166.88 0.48 -6.52
33 Iraq 159.84 0.46 -15.7
34 Netherlands 136.68 0.39 -10.38
35 Philippines 132.85 0.38 -7.84
36 Nigeria 123.82 0.35 -2.76
37 Uzbekistan 109.63 0.31 1.11
38 Qatar 102.5 0.29 1.47
39 Kuwait 97.71 0.28 -10.27
40 Bangladesh 93.61 0.27 -7.12
41 Czechia 91.7 0.26 -9.24
42 Belgium 91.1 0.26 -8.41
43 Colombia 89.73 0.26 -5.04
44 Chile 80.18 0.23 -12.83
45 Romania 74.03 0.21 -3.72
46 Turkmenistan 67.7 0.19 3.63
47 Oman 65.43 0.19 10.48
48 Morocco 64.56 0.18 -6.08
49 Austria 62.12 0.18 -8.59
50 Venezuela 61.96 0.18 -29.28
51 Belarus 59.06 0.17 -4.9
52 Israel 55.7 0.16 -5.05
53 Greece 55.62 0.16 -15.42
54 Singapore 54.81 0.16 62.27
55 North Korea 49.81 0.14 -5.59
56 Hungary 47.34 0.14 -4.01
57 Libya 47.07 0.13 -33.26
58 Peru 46.97 0.13 -19.53
59 Serbia 45.17 0.13 2.01
60 Portugal 41.7 0.12 -12.21
61 Norway 41.23 0.12 -3.65
62 Finland 37.74 0.11 -11.12
63 Bahrain 37.4 0.11 -0.5
64 Mongolia 37.08 0.11 -21.54
65 Sweden 36.69 0.1 -10.53
66 Bulgaria 36.53 0.1 -13.49
67 Azerbaijan 36.15 0.1 -4.21
68 Ireland 35.12 0.1 -5.9
69 Trinidad and Tobago 35.03 0.1 -14.11
70 Myanmar 34.61 0.1 2.95
71 New Zealand 34.24 0.1 -7.16
72 Switzerland 34.24 0.1 -6.78
73 Hong Kong 33.5 0.1 -20.05
74 Ecuador 32.91 0.09 -17.86
75 Slovakia 31.1 0.09 -7.94
76 Tunisia 28.49 0.08 -6.13
77 Denmark 28.3 0.08 -8.56
78 Syria 26.31 0.08 -8.24
79 Dominican Republic 23.5 0.07 -17.17
80 Lebanon 22.28 0.06 -13.18
81 Kenya 21.98 0.06 11.03
82 Cuba 21.28 0.06 -5.93
83 Jordan 21.13 0.06 -14.56
84 Bosnia and Herzegovina 20.83 0.06 0.1
85 Sri Lanka 20.62 0.06 -2.86
86 Sudan 20.53 0.06 -5.72
87 Laos 19.67 0.06 0.72
88 Ghana 19.17 0.05 16.75
89 Cambodia 19.03 0.05 4.47
90 Bolivia 18.33 0.05 -18.93
91 Ethiopia 17.81 0.05 6.81
92 Guatemala 17.34 0.05 -11.1
93 Croatia 16.87 0.05 -5.53
94 Angola 16.76 0.05 -12.78
95 Nepal 14.9 0.04 9.78
96 Tanzania 14.17 0.04 3.1
97 Lithuania 13.54 0.04 -1.02
98 Slovenia 12.85 0.04 -8.44
99 Afghanistan 11.89 0.03 7.28
100 Brunei 11.1 0.03 3.44
101 Cote d'Ivoire 11.02 0.03 4.59
102 Yemen 10.88 0.03 -8.05
103 Senegal 10.82 0.03 -14.88
104 Georgia 10.57 0.03 -2.87
105 Panama 10.32 0.03 -22.84
106 Cameroon 9.7 0.03 1.14
107 Honduras 9.53 0.03 -15.09
108 Tajikistan 9.3 0.03 4.99
109 Estonia 9.24 0.03 -25.03
110 Kyrgyzstan 8.35 0.02 -7.71
111 Zambia 8.14 0.02 5.08
112 Luxembourg 8.07 0.02 -17.42
113 Zimbabwe 7.85 0.02 -19.7
114 Benin 7.74 0.02 8.83
115 Papua New Guinea 7.72 0.02 -1.19
116 Congo 7.39 0.02 1.39
117 Paraguay 7.37 0.02 -9.47
118 Latvia 7.0 0.02 -8.51
119 North Macedonia 6.95 0.02 -9.06
120 Cyprus 6.91 0.02 -5.88
121 Armenia 6.8 0.02 8.19
122 Costa Rica 6.76 0.02 -12.15
123 El Salvador 6.59 0.02 -12.65
124 Uruguay 6.48 0.02 -0.2
125 Jamaica 6.46 0.02 -17.39
126 Mali 6.42 0.02 10.05
127 Mozambique 6.38 0.02 -10.21
128 Gabon 5.93 0.02 9.27
129 Botswana 5.55 0.02 -18.15
130 Uganda 5.54 0.02 -3.38
131 Equatorial Guinea 5.52 0.02 19.12
132 Moldova 5.24 0.01 -4.62
133 Burkina Faso 5.19 0.01 -5.69
134 New Caledonia 5.11 0.01 -9.94
135 Albania 5.02 0.01 3.98
136 Nicaragua 4.75 0.01 -9.08
137 Guinea 4.5 0.01 14.75
138 Mauritania 4.12 0.01 9.13
139 Madagascar 3.96 0.01 -6.87
140 Mauritius 3.81 0.01 -15.8
141 Democratic Republic of Congo 3.71 0.01 3.27
142 Namibia 3.68 0.01 -10.44
143 Iceland 3.34 0.01 -6.16
144 Palestine 3.33 0.01 1.88
145 Guyana 3.19 0.01 15.7
146 Suriname 2.92 0.01 10.7
147 Niger 2.82 0.01 12.07
148 Haiti 2.51 0.01 -18.73
149 Montenegro 2.41 0.01 -2.81
150 Togo 2.38 0.01 -1.4
151 Chad 2.28 0.01 -1.04
152 Bahamas 2.18 0.01 -11.04
153 Lesotho 2.17 0.01 -9.05
154 Malawi 1.87 0.01 14.31
155 Curacao 1.81 0.01 -19.44
156 South Sudan 1.69 0.0 -4.94
157 Maldives 1.65 0.0 -15.57
158 Malta 1.6 0.0 -3.13
159 Rwanda 1.37 0.0 -0.07
160 Barbados 1.23 0.0 -25.99
161 Eswatini 1.09 0.0 -2.61
162 Fiji 1.04 0.0 -26.07
163 Macao 1.03 0.0 -14.8
164 Sierra Leone 1.03 0.0 2.19
165 Bhutan 0.92 0.0 -36.94
166 Aruba 0.89 0.0 0.0
167 French Polynesia 0.85 0.0 -3.35
168 Liberia 0.77 0.0 -24.54
169 Faroe Islands 0.76 0.0 2.48
170 Burundi 0.74 0.0 6.81
171 Gambia 0.7 0.0 -1.55
172 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.65 0.0 -5.32
173 East Timor 0.65 0.0 -4.28
174 Eritrea 0.64 0.0 -1.11
175 Antigua and Barbuda 0.62 0.0 -3.43
176 Belize 0.61 0.0 -13.27
177 Seychelles 0.61 0.0 2.47
178 Somalia 0.6 0.0 -6.32
179 Greenland 0.54 0.0 -3.29
180 Cape Verde 0.52 0.0 -7.84
181 Saint Lucia 0.48 0.0 -3.65
182 Bermuda 0.46 0.0 -22.84
183 Djibouti 0.38 0.0 -14.75
184 Comoros 0.38 0.0 22.35
185 Andorra 0.37 0.0 -22.73
186 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.36 0.0 -1.01
187 Guinea-Bissau 0.3 0.0 -7.95
188 Grenada 0.29 0.0 -12.22
189 Solomon Islands 0.29 0.0 -1.25
190 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.25 0.0 8.06
191 Samoa 0.24 0.0 -10.81
192 Central African Republic 0.24 0.0 4.84
193 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.23 0.0 -8.7
194 Palau 0.21 0.0 -3.33
195 Vanuatu 0.2 0.0 22.22
196 Tonga 0.18 0.0 13.64
197 British Virgin Islands 0.16 0.0 -2.22
198 Dominica 0.16 0.0 -8.51
199 Marshall Islands 0.15 0.0 0.0
200 Micronesia (country) 0.15 0.0 0.0
201 Anguilla 0.14 0.0 -2.5
202 Liechtenstein 0.14 0.0 -4.76
203 Sao Tome and Principe 0.14 0.0 -2.56
204 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0.11 0.0 3.33
205 Cook Islands 0.07 0.0 -21.74
206 Kiribati 0.07 0.0 0.0
207 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.06 0.0 -5.56
208 Nauru 0.05 0.0 -6.67
209 Wallis and Futuna 0.03 0.0 0.0
210 Montserrat 0.02 0.0 0.0
211 Saint Helena 0.02 0.0 25.0
212 Tuvalu 0.01 0.0 0.0
213 Niue 0.01 0.0 0.0