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The 10 Countries That Emit the Most CO₂ Per Person |
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Every year the Global Carbon Project counts the CO₂ each country emits, then divides by its people. Qatar comes out at 41 tonnes a head — nearly nine times the world average. The United States barely makes the top ten. China doesn't make it at all. |
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Source: Global Carbon Budget 2025, via Our World in Data. Production-based CO₂ emissions per person, 2024. Sovereign states; overseas territories excluded. |
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| What's Surprising |
Qatar sits at 41 tonnes a person. The world average is 4.7, and it has barely moved in a decade. Nothing about size explains the top of this list.
The countries you'd expect are far down it. China emits more CO₂ than any nation on Earth, yet 8.7 tonnes a head — a fifth of a Qatari. India, the most populous country, emits 2.2. The giants shrink the moment you divide by people.
What's left at the top is small and sells fuel. Qatar has about three million people and ships gas to the world. Divide a mountain of carbon by very few people, and you get 41.
| What's Not Surprising |
Every country in the top eight pumps oil or gas. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman sell oil; Qatar, Brunei and Trinidad sell gas. All six Gulf monarchies are here.
The reason repeats. Small populations, huge fossil output, and energy-hungry living — constant air conditioning, desalinated water, cheap fuel. Extract hydrocarbons, divide by few people, and the number climbs.
The big rich economies sit just below. Australia and the United States rank 9th and 10th; Canada and Russia are close behind, all in the teens. High, but a third of Qatar.
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41 tonnes CO₂ per person in Qatar, the world's highest — almost nine times the global average. |
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4.7 tonnes The world average per person, stuck just below five tonnes for more than a decade. |
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10th Where the United States ranks per person, though it emits more CO₂ in total than every country but China. |
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6 of 10 All six Gulf monarchies — Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman — rank in the top ten. |
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8.7 tonnes China per person — the world's biggest emitter overall, yet each resident emits a fifth of a Qatari's total. |
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The Global Carbon Project updates the count every November. Two things to track. Qatar's North Field expansion will lift its gas output, and its number with it. And China, long the story in total emissions, may be near its per-person peak as it adds solar and electric cars faster than anyone. If China turns down, the whole global average bends. We'll be watching. |
