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 10905.69 31.05 1.79
2 United States 4714.63 13.42 -10.4
3 India 2421.55 6.89 -7.32
4 Russia 1632.93 4.65 -4.23
5 Japan 1040.48 2.96 -5.88
6 Iran 756.61 2.15 2.89
7 Germany 648.36 1.85 -8.66
8 Saudi Arabia 616.09 1.75 -6.31
9 Indonesia 608.22 1.73 -6.97
10 South Korea 597.63 1.7 -7.5
11 Canada 526.58 1.5 -9.53
12 Brazil 445.21 1.27 -5.95
13 South Africa 434.07 1.24 -6.47
14 Mexico 428.94 1.22 -8.39
15 Turkey 412.93 1.18 2.54
16 Australia 399.18 1.14 -3.99
17 Vietnam 362.46 1.03 6.87
18 United Kingdom 326.26 0.93 -10.55
19 Italy 302.6 0.86 -10.9
20 Poland 302.43 0.86 -4.81
21 France 280.49 0.8 -10.96
22 Taiwan 272.2 0.77 -0.82
23 Thailand 271.92 0.77 -3.53
24 Malaysia 263.2 0.75 -5.95
25 Kazakhstan 255.49 0.73 -7.19
26 Egypt 235.36 0.67 -9.04
27 Pakistan 230.75 0.66 11.14
28 United Arab Emirates 217.38 0.62 -1.09
29 Spain 211.84 0.6 -15.46
30 Ukraine 206.82 0.59 -6.81
31 Algeria 168.18 0.48 -6.52
32 Argentina 165.12 0.47 -7.5
33 Iraq 161.12 0.46 -15.31
34 Netherlands 136.67 0.39 -10.33
35 Philippines 132.23 0.38 -7.87
36 Nigeria 129.5 0.37 -3.23
37 Uzbekistan 109.63 0.31 1.11
38 Qatar 102.5 0.29 1.47
39 Kuwait 95.65 0.27 -11.88
40 Bangladesh 95.45 0.27 0.68
41 Czechia 91.67 0.26 -9.24
42 Belgium 91.23 0.26 -8.48
43 Colombia 89.73 0.26 -5.04
44 Venezuela 80.93 0.23 -23.14
45 Chile 80.18 0.23 -12.83
46 Romania 73.71 0.21 -3.59
47 Oman 68.63 0.2 -4.32
48 North Korea 65.55 0.19 -5.67
49 Morocco 64.56 0.18 -6.07
50 Turkmenistan 64.26 0.18 1.71
51 Austria 62.18 0.18 -8.49
52 Israel 59.16 0.17 0.85
53 Belarus 59.06 0.17 -4.9
54 Greece 55.56 0.16 -15.48
55 Hungary 47.11 0.13 -4.19
56 Peru 46.92 0.13 -19.6
57 Singapore 46.7 0.13 -4.69
58 Serbia 45.17 0.13 2.01
59 Portugal 41.74 0.12 -12.28
60 Norway 41.23 0.12 -3.65
61 Finland 37.7 0.11 -11.17
62 Bahrain 37.4 0.11 -0.49
63 Mongolia 37.07 0.11 -21.53
64 Sweden 36.7 0.1 -10.12
65 Bulgaria 36.64 0.1 -13.3
66 Azerbaijan 36.23 0.1 -4.01
67 Ireland 35.12 0.1 -5.89
68 Trinidad and Tobago 35.07 0.1 -14.02
69 Myanmar 34.59 0.1 2.88
70 Libya 34.24 0.1 -55.1
71 Switzerland 34.23 0.1 -6.79
72 New Zealand 34.02 0.1 -7.38
73 Hong Kong 33.5 0.1 -20.05
74 Ecuador 32.91 0.09 -17.85
75 Slovakia 31.15 0.09 -7.91
76 Tunisia 28.49 0.08 -6.14
77 Denmark 28.29 0.08 -8.56
78 Dominican Republic 27.02 0.08 -4.79
79 Syria 26.31 0.07 -3.98
80 Lebanon 23.81 0.07 -7.2
81 Kenya 21.98 0.06 11.04
82 Cuba 21.28 0.06 -5.41
83 Sudan 21.17 0.06 -2.2
84 Jordan 20.96 0.06 -15.3
85 Bosnia and Herzegovina 20.83 0.06 0.1
86 Sri Lanka 20.62 0.06 -2.88
87 Laos 19.49 0.06 2.16
88 Ghana 19.17 0.05 16.75
89 Cambodia 19.03 0.05 2.17
90 Bolivia 18.31 0.05 -18.99
91 Guatemala 17.16 0.05 -11.08
92 Croatia 16.88 0.05 -5.32
93 Angola 16.53 0.05 -25.01
94 Tanzania 16.25 0.05 -0.77
95 Ethiopia 15.85 0.05 -8.04
96 Nepal 15.63 0.04 22.6
97 Lithuania 13.56 0.04 -1.05
98 Slovenia 12.85 0.04 -8.44
99 Afghanistan 11.61 0.03 7.21
100 Brunei 11.16 0.03 3.95
101 Cote d'Ivoire 11.02 0.03 4.56
102 Yemen 10.88 0.03 -8.05
103 Senegal 10.82 0.03 -14.88
104 Georgia 10.57 0.03 -2.86
105 Cameroon 9.72 0.03 1.14
106 Honduras 9.53 0.03 -15.09
107 Tajikistan 9.4 0.03 8.2
108 Estonia 9.2 0.03 -25.15
109 Zimbabwe 8.49 0.02 -17.23
110 Kyrgyzstan 8.35 0.02 -7.68
111 Zambia 8.14 0.02 5.08
112 Luxembourg 8.07 0.02 -17.28
113 Papua New Guinea 7.87 0.02 -1.49
114 Congo 7.68 0.02 5.26
115 Paraguay 7.38 0.02 -9.29
116 Panama 7.25 0.02 -44.77
117 Cyprus 7.01 0.02 -4.48
118 Latvia 7.0 0.02 -8.5
119 North Macedonia 6.96 0.02 -8.96
120 Jamaica 6.9 0.02 -27.16
121 Armenia 6.8 0.02 8.14
122 Costa Rica 6.77 0.02 -12.05
123 El Salvador 6.59 0.02 -12.69
124 Uruguay 6.47 0.02 1.0
125 Mali 6.45 0.02 10.55
126 Equatorial Guinea 6.41 0.02 15.84
127 Mozambique 6.38 0.02 -10.21
128 Gabon 5.62 0.02 5.51
129 Uganda 5.57 0.02 -3.3
130 Botswana 5.55 0.02 -17.48
131 Benin 5.52 0.02 4.85
132 Burkina Faso 5.38 0.02 -4.34
133 Moldova 5.24 0.01 -4.68
134 New Caledonia 5.11 0.01 -9.94
135 Mauritania 4.78 0.01 3.49
136 Albania 4.71 0.01 -2.4
137 Nicaragua 4.66 0.01 -10.76
138 Guinea 4.5 0.01 14.75
139 Democratic Republic of Congo 4.3 0.01 4.37
140 Madagascar 3.97 0.01 -7.49
141 Namibia 3.83 0.01 -9.6
142 Mauritius 3.81 0.01 -15.8
143 Guyana 3.36 0.01 21.95
144 Iceland 3.34 0.01 -6.06
145 Palestine 3.33 0.01 1.91
146 Haiti 3.24 0.01 3.51
147 Suriname 2.92 0.01 10.71
148 Niger 2.46 0.01 -2.08
149 Togo 2.44 0.01 5.18
150 Montenegro 2.41 0.01 -2.81
151 Chad 2.36 0.01 2.48
152 Lesotho 2.17 0.01 -9.05
153 Bahamas 2.03 0.01 -18.86
154 Curacao 1.81 0.01 -19.51
155 Malawi 1.77 0.01 2.75
156 South Sudan 1.69 0.0 -4.94
157 Maldives 1.68 0.0 -15.81
158 Malta 1.6 0.0 -2.93
159 Rwanda 1.37 0.0 -0.07
160 Bhutan 1.25 0.0 -22.77
161 Barbados 1.24 0.0 -13.39
162 Eswatini 1.12 0.0 0.0
163 Macao 1.03 0.0 -14.8
164 Sierra Leone 1.03 0.0 2.19
165 Fiji 1.0 0.0 -25.95
166 French Polynesia 0.83 0.0 -6.58
167 Aruba 0.82 0.0 -0.88
168 Liberia 0.78 0.0 -16.32
169 Faroe Islands 0.76 0.0 2.48
170 Burundi 0.74 0.0 7.29
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 -0.63
175 Antigua and Barbuda 0.62 0.0 -3.43
176 Seychelles 0.6 0.0 0.62
177 Somalia 0.6 0.0 -6.32
178 Belize 0.58 0.0 -17.41
179 Greenland 0.54 0.0 -3.29
180 Cape Verde 0.52 0.0 -18.02
181 Saint Lucia 0.48 0.0 -3.65
182 Djibouti 0.46 0.0 -14.76
183 Bermuda 0.44 0.0 -26.54
184 Andorra 0.38 0.0 -22.39
185 Comoros 0.37 0.0 20.0
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 Samoa 0.24 0.0 -10.81
191 Central African Republic 0.24 0.0 4.84
192 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.24 0.0 6.56
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 0.18 0.0 -2.0
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 -14.29
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 0.01 0.0 -25.0
212 Tuvalu 0.01 0.0 0.0
213 Niue 0.01 0.0 0.0