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CO₂ per person

Tonnes of CO₂ per person. PL and DE down; the world per person is not.

tonnes per person

Climate

The file

CO₂ emissions in tonnes per person, 1970–2024.

The indicator

EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5 is per head, not the national total. A shrinking population can cut per-person tonnes slowly.

What the numbers show

Poland 9.5 → 7.6 t; Germany 14 → 6.9; US 22 → 14; world 4.1 → 4.7. The world per person is not falling. Mix: Renewable energy; forests: Forest area.

Source
World Bank Open Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Last publisher update
2026-07-13
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “CO₂ per person”. World Bank Open Data (EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5), 1970–2024, Brazil, China, Czechia, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United States, World. Retrieved 2026-09-15. CC BY 4.0. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/co2-per-capita/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

15 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
United States202413.6
China20249.3
Japan20247.8
Poland20247.6
Czechia20247.1
Germany20246.9
Netherlands20246.6
Italy20245.1
The rest of the places (7)
Remaining 7 places
World20244.7
Spain20244.5
United Kingdom20244.2
France20244.0
Sweden20243.6
Brazil20242.3
India20242.2

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