Data
Greenhouse gas emissions per person: each country's emissions divided by its population
Each country's emissions of all greenhouse gases from all sectors on its territory, including net land use and excluding international aviation and shipping, divided by its population, in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per person per year, as published by FAO since 1990. This is a national average where emissions happen, not one person's footprint: it does not follow what people buy (emissions in imported goods count where they are made) and says nothing about how emissions differ between people in a country. FAO has no row for some sectors of four territories (October 2025 release), so their values leave those sectors out: Mayotte has no energy, industry, waste or other emissions, Tokelau no energy or other, and Nauru and Tuvalu no other. Values can be below zero where forests take up more carbon than the country emits: 94 of the values in the October 2025 release are.
Latest value
6.44t CO₂e per person
The world, countries and territories, and the European Union (27), 2023. Version 2025-10-28.
Greenhouse gas emissions per person: each country's emissions divided by its population (tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per person)
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| Period | Value (t CO₂e per person) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 6.42 | final |
| 1991 | 6.41 | final |
| 1992 | 6.26 | final |
| 1993 | 6.19 | final |
| 1994 | 6.13 | final |
| 1995 | 6.15 | final |
| 1996 | 6.16 | final |
| 1997 | 6.26 | final |
| 1998 | 6.04 | final |
| 1999 | 6.02 | final |
| 2000 | 6.05 | final |
| 2001 | 5.67 | final |
| 2002 | 5.78 | final |
| 2003 | 5.91 | final |
| 2004 | 6.09 | final |
| 2005 | 6.14 | final |
| 2006 | 6.29 | final |
| 2007 | 6.28 | final |
| 2008 | 6.30 | final |
| 2009 | 6.21 | final |
| 2010 | 6.36 | final |
| 2011 | 6.42 | final |
| 2012 | 6.43 | final |
| 2013 | 6.37 | final |
| 2014 | 6.42 | final |
| 2015 | 6.35 | final |
| 2016 | 6.27 | final |
| 2017 | 6.30 | final |
| 2018 | 6.39 | final |
| 2019 | 6.43 | final |
| 2020 | 6.11 | final |
| 2021 | 6.34 | final |
| 2022 | 6.37 | final |
| 2023 | 6.44 | final |
Where it comes from
- Producer
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Statistics Division · FAOSTAT greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors (with PRIMAP-hist v2.7)
- Version
- 2025-10-28
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- 2026-10-05 (automatically), 4,655,416 bytes
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- sha256 d48bf98589ccfd3ffc2aae314091088d3a989cb58d3f149fdc26856178d6da34ETag "09064d9dbb13662b004da75f13044915" · Last-Modified Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:06:06 GMT
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- Cite the producer
- FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT. Accessed on 5 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Energy, industrial processes, waste and other emissions: Gütschow, J., Busch, D. & Pflüger, M. (2025). The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1750-2024) v2.7. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17090760 Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Producer
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Statistics Division · FAOSTAT greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors (with PRIMAP-hist v2.7)
- Version
- 2025-10-28
- Fetched
- 2026-10-05 (automatically), 109,120 bytes
- Fingerprint
- sha256 008f475c971a7770c69b1bc48f1c3a5fa8bf3873e762d6e1e9516bb0a700ebdaETag W/"157c9ec8e5eea09a02497cc10f67bcdb" · Last-Modified Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:49:35 GMT
- Copies
- No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
- Cite the producer
- FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT. Accessed on 5 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Energy, industrial processes, waste and other emissions: Gütschow, J., Busch, D. & Pflüger, M. (2025). The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1750-2024) v2.7. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17090760 Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
What was done to it
Read Climate_change_Emissions_indicators_E_All_Data_(Normalized).csv from FAOSTAT's Emissions indicators (EM) bulk zip. The vintage is the domain's DateUpdate, 28 October 2025, from FAOSTAT's bulk-download catalogue (datasets_E.json), whose entry names this zip and gives FileRows 678,370, the number of data rows in this file. The zip was last modified on the server on Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:06:06 GMT.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Kept the rows of item "All sectors with LULUCF" (code 6825), element "Emissions per capita" (code 7279), unit "t CO2eq/cap", 1990–2023, as FAO prints them. FAO divides each area's all-sector emissions by its population; nothing is computed here.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
94 published per-person values are below zero, in 11 areas (BIH, BLR, BTN, FJI, GHA, HND, LAO, LCA, LVA, MNE, RWA), where land use, land-use change and forestry takes up more carbon than the other emissions counted add up to; the lowest is LAO 2001 (-9.66 t CO2eq/cap as printed). Published as printed.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Left out former states and territories reported only before their dissolution, with no entity here (Belgium-Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia PDR, Netherlands Antilles (former), Pacific Islands Trust Territory, Sudan (former), USSR, Yugoslav SFR); FAO regional and analytical groups (Africa, Americas, Annex I countries, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Caribbean, Central America, Central Asia, China, Eastern Africa, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Land Locked Developing Countries (LLDCs), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Low Income Food Deficit Countries (LIFDCs), Melanesia, Micronesia, Middle Africa, Net Food Importing Developing Countries (NFIDCs), Non-Annex I countries, Northern Africa, Northern America, Northern Europe, OECD, Oceania, Polynesia, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), South America, South-eastern Asia, Southern Africa, Southern Asia, Southern Europe, Western Africa, Western Asia, Western Europe). Their values are never re-assigned to other entities.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Every value used carries FAO's flag E, which the file's codebook defines as "Estimated value".
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
What it covers
- Geography
- The world, countries and territories, and the European Union (27)
- Gases combined with
- AR5-GWP100
- Land use, land-use change and forestry
- included
- Basis
- FAO's published value of all-sector emissions (FAOSTAT item "All sectors with LULUCF") divided by population, territorial (production-based) accounting. FAOSTAT's six IPCC sectors: energy, industrial processes and product use, agriculture, land use, land-use change and forestry (net: emissions from deforestation, drained organic soils and fires minus the carbon taken up by existing forests, so it can be negative), waste and other. International aviation and shipping (bunker fuels) are not included. Agriculture and land use are FAO's own Tier 1 estimates; energy, industry, waste and other are PRIMAP-hist v2.7 third-party estimates, which count some territories inside their parent country (for example Bermuda in the United Kingdom, Greenland and the Faroe Islands in Denmark, Palestine in Israel, Puerto Rico in the United States). So such a parent country's energy, industry, waste and other emissions include those territories while its agriculture and land use do not, and for 28 territories in the October 2025 release FAO has no energy, industry, waste or other rows, so their total covers agriculture and land use only. Estimates, not country inventory submissions.
- Unit
- tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per person (t CO₂e per person)