CO2 Emissions World Ranking 2021

Countries ranked by how much carbon dioxide they produced in 2021.

Key questions

Which country produced the most CO₂ in 2021?

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

Which country produced the least CO₂ in 2021?

Niue produced the least CO₂ out of all countries.

Rankings

Rank Country CO₂ (million tonnes) Global share (%) Change from previous year (%)
1 China 11447.91 30.95 4.97
2 United States 5032.21 13.6 6.74
3 India 2674.22 7.23 10.43
4 Russia 1711.99 4.63 4.84
5 Japan 1061.91 2.87 2.06
6 Iran 779.76 2.11 3.06
7 Saudi Arabia 695.84 1.88 12.95
8 Germany 678.78 1.83 4.69
9 Indonesia 619.62 1.68 1.87
10 South Korea 616.08 1.67 3.09
11 Canada 540.31 1.46 2.61
12 Brazil 498.02 1.35 11.86
13 Turkey 452.7 1.22 9.63
14 Mexico 446.83 1.21 4.17
15 South Africa 425.92 1.15 -1.88
16 Australia 389.02 1.05 -2.55
17 United Kingdom 344.51 0.93 5.59
18 Italy 335.98 0.91 11.03
19 Poland 330.98 0.89 9.44
20 Vietnam 313.97 0.85 -13.38
21 France 305.61 0.83 8.95
22 Taiwan 283.57 0.77 4.18
23 Malaysia 273.15 0.74 3.78
24 Thailand 267.14 0.72 -1.76
25 Egypt 260.94 0.71 10.87
26 Kazakhstan 255.14 0.69 -0.13
27 Pakistan 247.9 0.67 7.43
28 Spain 229.07 0.62 8.13
29 United Arab Emirates 216.23 0.58 -0.53
30 Ukraine 210.15 0.57 1.61
31 Argentina 191.11 0.52 15.74
32 Algeria 179.6 0.49 6.79
33 Iraq 159.04 0.43 -1.29
34 Philippines 141.17 0.38 6.76
35 Netherlands 139.68 0.38 2.2
36 Nigeria 135.07 0.37 4.3
37 Uzbekistan 120.24 0.33 9.68
38 Bangladesh 107.62 0.29 12.75
39 Qatar 104.24 0.28 1.7
40 Czechia 96.65 0.26 5.42
41 Kuwait 95.13 0.26 -0.55
42 Belgium 94.89 0.26 4.01
43 Colombia 94.32 0.25 5.12
44 Chile 83.66 0.23 4.34
45 Venezuela 78.46 0.21 -3.05
46 Romania 77.27 0.21 4.83
47 Oman 75.12 0.2 9.46
48 Morocco 70.25 0.19 8.8
49 Austria 65.76 0.18 5.76
50 Turkmenistan 63.43 0.17 -1.28
51 Belarus 60.94 0.16 3.19
52 Israel 59.01 0.16 -0.25
53 Greece 57.52 0.16 3.53
54 Libya 56.54 0.15 65.14
55 North Korea 53.95 0.15 -17.69
56 Peru 52.02 0.14 10.85
57 Singapore 50.1 0.14 7.28
58 Hungary 48.33 0.13 2.6
59 Serbia 43.68 0.12 -3.29
60 Bulgaria 42.43 0.11 15.78
61 Mongolia 41.85 0.11 12.89
62 Norway 41.03 0.11 -0.49
63 Portugal 40.28 0.11 -3.48
64 Sweden 38.63 0.1 5.26
65 Azerbaijan 38.29 0.1 5.68
66 Ecuador 38.2 0.1 16.09
67 Finland 37.8 0.1 0.26
68 Ireland 37.54 0.1 6.89
69 Trinidad and Tobago 36.41 0.1 3.84
70 Bahrain 36.2 0.1 -3.21
71 Switzerland 35.78 0.1 4.53
72 Slovakia 35.22 0.1 13.04
73 New Zealand 34.32 0.09 0.88
74 Hong Kong 33.72 0.09 0.66
75 Tunisia 31.17 0.08 9.39
76 Dominican Republic 30.84 0.08 14.14
77 Myanmar 29.6 0.08 -14.42
78 Denmark 29.59 0.08 4.57
79 Syria 26.03 0.07 -1.06
80 Sri Lanka 23.02 0.06 11.59
81 Laos 22.8 0.06 16.98
82 Cuba 22.55 0.06 5.99
83 Kenya 22.31 0.06 1.51
84 Sudan 22.22 0.06 4.98
85 Bolivia 21.76 0.06 18.81
86 Bosnia and Herzegovina 21.26 0.06 2.07
87 Jordan 20.64 0.06 -1.54
88 Ghana 20.55 0.06 7.19
89 Guatemala 19.81 0.05 15.38
90 Lebanon 19.29 0.05 -18.99
91 Cambodia 19.25 0.05 1.12
92 Angola 19.2 0.05 16.1
93 Tanzania 18.27 0.05 12.41
94 Croatia 17.41 0.05 3.13
95 Ethiopia 16.16 0.04 1.96
96 Nepal 15.72 0.04 0.59
97 Lithuania 13.85 0.04 2.13
98 Cote d'Ivoire 13.67 0.04 24.09
99 Slovenia 13.06 0.04 1.59
100 Senegal 12.31 0.03 13.76
101 Brunei 11.71 0.03 4.98
102 Georgia 11.09 0.03 4.91
103 Yemen 10.87 0.03 -0.12
104 Panama 10.54 0.03 45.39
105 Estonia 10.39 0.03 12.96
106 Kyrgyzstan 10.33 0.03 23.69
107 Afghanistan 10.27 0.03 -11.49
108 Zimbabwe 10.2 0.03 20.12
109 Honduras 10.19 0.03 6.95
110 Cameroon 9.61 0.03 -1.14
111 Tajikistan 9.23 0.02 -1.88
112 Luxembourg 8.42 0.02 4.28
113 Paraguay 8.13 0.02 10.25
114 Papua New Guinea 8.13 0.02 3.34
115 Mozambique 7.87 0.02 23.39
116 Uruguay 7.83 0.02 21.0
117 Zambia 7.79 0.02 -4.4
118 Costa Rica 7.65 0.02 12.95
119 El Salvador 7.58 0.02 14.97
120 Armenia 7.42 0.02 9.15
121 Congo 7.41 0.02 -3.42
122 Jamaica 7.35 0.02 6.42
123 Latvia 7.24 0.02 3.43
124 Cyprus 7.17 0.02 2.22
125 Equatorial Guinea 7.12 0.02 11.04
126 Mali 6.89 0.02 6.79
127 North Macedonia 6.49 0.02 -6.79
128 Burkina Faso 6.29 0.02 16.96
129 Uganda 6.17 0.02 10.69
130 Botswana 6.01 0.02 8.25
131 Moldova 5.85 0.02 11.69
132 Benin 5.76 0.02 4.38
133 Gabon 5.53 0.01 -1.66
134 Nicaragua 5.14 0.01 10.39
135 Albania 5.13 0.01 8.98
136 New Caledonia 4.54 0.01 -11.2
137 Mauritania 4.5 0.01 -5.82
138 Madagascar 4.45 0.01 12.08
139 Democratic Republic of Congo 4.27 0.01 -0.77
140 Guinea 4.13 0.01 -8.31
141 Mauritius 3.97 0.01 4.33
142 Namibia 3.9 0.01 1.8
143 Palestine 3.63 0.01 9.25
144 Guyana 3.58 0.01 6.57
145 Iceland 3.51 0.01 5.02
146 Haiti 3.48 0.01 7.58
147 Lesotho 3.43 0.01 57.67
148 Niger 2.71 0.01 10.23
149 Togo 2.67 0.01 9.5
150 Chad 2.67 0.01 13.31
151 Suriname 2.64 0.01 -9.42
152 Bahamas 2.48 0.01 21.8
153 Montenegro 2.41 0.01 0.15
154 Curacao 2.0 0.01 10.3
155 Maldives 1.97 0.01 17.47
156 Malawi 1.88 0.01 6.59
157 South Sudan 1.76 0.0 3.68
158 Rwanda 1.66 0.0 20.92
159 Malta 1.61 0.0 0.65
160 Bhutan 1.6 0.0 27.64
161 Sierra Leone 1.26 0.0 22.5
162 Barbados 1.18 0.0 -4.97
163 Fiji 1.1 0.0 9.12
164 Macao 1.03 0.0 -0.71
165 Eswatini 1.01 0.0 -9.8
166 French Polynesia 0.88 0.0 5.29
167 Aruba 0.86 0.0 4.46
168 Liberia 0.78 0.0 0.38
169 Faroe Islands 0.78 0.0 2.9
170 Burundi 0.78 0.0 4.91
171 Gambia 0.73 0.0 3.66
172 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.69 0.0 5.06
173 Eritrea 0.68 0.0 6.35
174 Antigua and Barbuda 0.64 0.0 2.96
175 East Timor 0.62 0.0 -4.07
176 Somalia 0.62 0.0 3.68
177 Belize 0.61 0.0 4.97
178 Seychelles 0.61 0.0 2.45
179 Greenland 0.57 0.0 5.5
180 Cape Verde 0.55 0.0 5.67
181 Djibouti 0.53 0.0 14.79
182 Bermuda 0.52 0.0 18.49
183 Saint Lucia 0.51 0.0 4.55
184 Comoros 0.5 0.0 33.33
185 Andorra 0.41 0.0 7.69
186 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.37 0.0 2.04
187 Grenada 0.31 0.0 7.59
188 Guinea-Bissau 0.3 0.0 2.47
189 Solomon Islands 0.29 0.0 0.0
190 Samoa 0.25 0.0 1.52
191 Central African Republic 0.24 0.0 1.54
192 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.23 0.0 -1.54
193 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.23 0.0 0.0
194 Vanuatu 0.22 0.0 7.27
195 Palau 0.21 0.0 0.0
196 Tonga 0.19 0.0 4.0
197 British Virgin Islands 0.18 0.0 2.04
198 Dominica 0.16 0.0 2.33
199 Marshall Islands 0.15 0.0 0.0
200 Liechtenstein 0.15 0.0 2.79
201 Anguilla 0.14 0.0 0.0
202 Micronesia (country) 0.14 0.0 -2.5
203 Sao Tome and Principe 0.14 0.0 2.63
204 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0.11 0.0 0.0
205 Cook Islands 0.07 0.0 5.56
206 Kiribati 0.07 0.0 0.0
207 Nauru 0.05 0.0 7.14
208 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0.05 0.0 -11.76
209 Wallis and Futuna 0.03 0.0 14.29
210 Montserrat 0.02 0.0 0.0
211 Saint Helena 0.01 0.0 0.0
212 Tuvalu 0.01 0.0 0.0
213 Niue 0.01 0.0 0.0