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Greenhouse gas emissions per person by country (EDGAR)

Greenhouse gases released each year since 1970 per person living in each country, the EU27 and the world, in carbon dioxide equivalent, as published in EDGAR 2026. Land use, land-use change and forestry are not included. Values for 2024 and 2025 are EDGAR's Fast-Track estimates and will be revised.

Latest value

6.62t CO₂e/person/yr

Every country EDGAR reports, the EU27 and the world, 2025 (preliminary). Version EDGAR_2026_GHG.

Greenhouse gas emissions per person by country (EDGAR) (tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per person per year)

56 values from 1970 to 2025.
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Greenhouse gas emissions per person by country (EDGAR), every value
PeriodValue (t CO₂e/person/yr)Status
19706.26final
19716.14final
19726.26final
19736.45final
19746.33final
19756.22final
19766.38final
19776.43final
19786.49final
19796.54final
19806.36final
19816.14final
19826.00final
19835.95final
19846.01final
19855.97final
19865.96final
19876.00final
19886.08final
19896.08final
19906.03final
19915.94final
19925.84final
19935.77final
19945.75final
19955.81final
19965.84final
19975.83final
19985.77final
19995.74final
20005.80final
20015.78final
20025.77final
20035.94final
20046.10final
20056.23final
20066.34final
20076.45final
20086.42final
20096.28final
20106.52final
20116.64final
20126.64final
20136.68final
20146.65final
20156.58final
20166.54final
20176.59final
20186.66final
20196.63final
20206.33final
20216.55final
20226.56final
20236.60final
20246.63preliminary
20256.62preliminary
© European Union 2026. EDGAR Community GHG Database version EDGAR_2026_GHG (2026), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) and International Energy Agency (IEA), comprising IEA-EDGAR CO2, EDGAR CH4, EDGAR N2O and EDGAR F-gases. IEA-EDGAR CO2 includes or is based on data from IEA (2025) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy, www.iea.org/data-and-statistics, as modified by the Joint Research Centre, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; other EDGAR material CC BY 4.0. Crippa et al., GHG emissions of all world countries - 2026 Report, doi:10.2760/7717504. https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/report_2026 and https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset_ghg2026. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 for IEA-EDGAR CO2 and every total that includes it; CC BY 4.0 for EU-owned EDGAR CH4, N2O and F-gases.

Notes on individual values

  • Fast-Track estimate: the report says the emissions for the Fast-Track years (2024-2025) will be updated in subsequent editions.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Switzerland and Liechtenstein": the value covers them together.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Switzerland and Liechtenstein": the value covers them together. Fast-Track estimate: the report says the emissions for the Fast-Track years (2024-2025) will be updated in subsequent editions.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Spain and Andorra": the value covers them together.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Spain and Andorra": the value covers them together. Fast-Track estimate: the report says the emissions for the Fast-Track years (2024-2025) will be updated in subsequent editions.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "France and Monaco": the value covers them together.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "France and Monaco": the value covers them together. Fast-Track estimate: the report says the emissions for the Fast-Track years (2024-2025) will be updated in subsequent editions.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Israel and Palestine, State of": the value covers them together.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Israel and Palestine, State of": the value covers them together. Fast-Track estimate: the report says the emissions for the Fast-Track years (2024-2025) will be updated in subsequent editions.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Italy, San Marino and the Holy See": the value covers them together.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Italy, San Marino and the Holy See": the value covers them together. Fast-Track estimate: the report says the emissions for the Fast-Track years (2024-2025) will be updated in subsequent editions.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Sudan and South Sudan": the value covers them together.
  • EDGAR reports this row as "Sudan and South Sudan": the value covers them together. Fast-Track estimate: the report says the emissions for the Fast-Track years (2024-2025) will be updated in subsequent editions.

Where it comes from

Producer
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), with the International Energy Agency (IEA) for fossil CO2 · EDGAR 2026: greenhouse gas emissions of all world countries
Version
EDGAR_2026_GHG
File
https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/booklet/EDGAR_2026_GHG_booklet_2026.xlsx
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2026-10-04 (automatically), 4,767,596 bytes
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Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Pagani, F., Banja, M., Ciarlantini, S., Muntean, M., Amici, L., Luini, C., Honavar Melo Pires, R., Quadrelli, R., Carvalho, P., Ruiz Ponsoda, D., Andrews, S., Köykkä, J., Grassi, G., Rossi, S., Melo, J., Branco, A., Suárez-Moreno, M., Sedano, F., Manca, G., Pisoni, E., Pekar, F., GHG emissions of all world countries - 2026 Report, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2026, doi:10.2760/7717504, JRC147815.
Producer
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), with the International Energy Agency (IEA) for fossil CO2 · EDGAR 2026: greenhouse gas emissions of all world countries
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EDGAR_2026_GHG
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https://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/booklet/GHG_emissions_of_all_world_countries_booklet_2026report.pdf
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Crippa, M., Guizzardi, D., Pagani, F., Banja, M., Ciarlantini, S., Muntean, M., Amici, L., Luini, C., Honavar Melo Pires, R., Quadrelli, R., Carvalho, P., Ruiz Ponsoda, D., Andrews, S., Köykkä, J., Grassi, G., Rossi, S., Melo, J., Branco, A., Suárez-Moreno, M., Sedano, F., Manca, G., Pisoni, E., Pekar, F., GHG emissions of all world countries - 2026 Report, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2026, doi:10.2760/7717504, JRC147815.

What was done to it

  1. Read the sheet 'GHG_per_capita_by_country' of EDGAR_2026_GHG_booklet_2026.xlsx (sha256 bb77a0da5735…): one row per country or aggregate, one column per year 1970–2025, in tonnes of CO₂-equivalent per person per year (t CO2eq/cap/yr) as the workbook's info sheet states. Each value is published exactly as stored in its cell: nothing is rounded, added up, divided or converted, because the licence of the fossil CO₂ part (IEA-EDGAR CO2, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) allows no derivatives.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/edgar_2026.py · code sha256 e917da7000ab67e8… · inputs bb77a0da5735… 4e5712706aed…

  2. Matched EDGAR's codes to ours: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes directly, except GLOBAL TOTAL "GLOBAL TOTAL" is WLD, EU27 "EU27" is EU27, ANT "Curaçao" is CUW, SCG "Serbia and Montenegro" is SRB_MNE (ANT is the old code of the Netherlands Antilles; EDGAR names the row Curaçao, here and on its report profile; SCG is one row for Serbia and Montenegro together). Rows that cover a country together with a neighbour (CHE "Switzerland and Liechtenstein", ESP "Spain and Andorra", FRA "France and Monaco", ISR "Israel and Palestine, State of", ITA "Italy, San Marino and the Holy See", SDN "Sudan and South Sudan") are published under the code EDGAR gives them, with EDGAR's row name as a note on every value.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/edgar_2026.py · code sha256 e917da7000ab67e8… · inputs bb77a0da5735… 4e5712706aed…

  3. Checked against the report PDF (sha256 4e5712706aed…): the totals exclude land use, land-use change and forestry (page 11: 'The latest EDGAR estimates indicate that global GHG emissions (excluding LULUCF) reached a new record high of 54.1 Gt CO₂eq in 2025'), and the world total includes international shipping and aviation (page 74: 'Global totals for all countries, including international shipping and aviation').

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/edgar_2026.py · code sha256 e917da7000ab67e8… · inputs bb77a0da5735… 4e5712706aed…

  4. Values for 2024 and 2025 are marked preliminary, because the report says (page 50) 'the emissions for the Fast-Track years (2024-2025) reported in this booklet will be updated in subsequent editions of this booklet'.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/edgar_2026.py · code sha256 e917da7000ab67e8… · inputs bb77a0da5735… 4e5712706aed…

What it covers

Geography
Every country EDGAR reports, the EU27 and the world
Gases combined with
AR5-GWP100
Land use, land-use change and forestry
excluded
Basis
CO₂ (fossil only: fuels and industrial processes), CH₄, N₂O and F-gases, added up with IPCC AR5 100-year global warming potentials. Country values exclude international aviation and shipping; the world value includes them. Some rows cover a country together with a neighbour, as noted on their values.
Unit
tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per person per year (t CO₂e/person/yr)