Farm gate — Emissions per capita by country

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions indicators disseminates indicators on sectoral shares of total national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as three indicators of emissions intensity: per capita emissions; emissions per value of agricultural production; and emissions per area of agricultural land.

Countries reporting
216
Highest
16.04 t CO2eq/cap
Mongolia
Lowest
0 t CO2eq/cap
China, Macao SAR
Median
0.8 t CO2eq/cap
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
8,446

What the numbers show

Farm gate — Emissions per capita is currently reported for 216 countries. The highest value is 16.04 t CO2eq/cap in Mongolia; the lowest is 0 t CO2eq/cap in China, Macao SAR.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.8 t CO2eq/cap, and the mean is 1.34 t CO2eq/cap.

Over the past decade 57 countries rose and 143 fell. The largest increase was in Tokelau (up 69.0%), and the largest decrease in Palau (down 100.0%).

Farm gate — Emissions per capita: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Mongolia 16.04 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 2.2% falling
2 New Zealand 8.68 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 21.7% falling
3 Uruguay 8.66 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 1.7% flat
4 Australia and New Zealand 8.6 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 17.5% falling
5 Australia 8.58 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 30.0% falling
6 Belarus 7.68 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 2.0% flat
7 Guyana 7.04 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 4.7% rising
8 Ireland 6.81 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.1% falling
9 Botswana 6.15 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 53.0% falling
10 Estonia 5.69 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 5.6% rising
11 Lithuania 5.27 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 1.5% rising
12 Iceland 5.11 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 19.9% falling
13 South Sudan 4.96 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 0.8% flat
13 Chad 4.96 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 22.8% rising
15 Paraguay 4.65 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 11.1% rising
16 Latvia 4.61 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 6.5% rising
17 Finland 3.97 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 1.0% flat
18 Argentina 3.31 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 3.5% falling
19 Canada 3.26 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 4.1% falling
20 Central African Republic 3.03 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 23.5% falling
21 Suriname 2.95 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 1.7% flat
22 Brazil 2.9 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 8.2% rising
23 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 2.89 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 7.8% rising
24 Namibia 2.87 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 20.5% falling
25 Sudan (former) 2.67 t CO2eq/cap 2011 down 17.1% falling
26 Denmark 2.45 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.7% falling
27 Papua New Guinea 2.42 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 16.8% falling
28 Turkmenistan 2.41 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 1.6% rising
29 Norway 2.19 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 4.8% falling
30 Mauritania 2.14 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 14.4% falling
31 Melanesia 2.08 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 17.5% falling
32 Poland 1.96 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 3.0% falling
33 Nicaragua 1.93 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 7.8% rising
33 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 1.93 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 17.2% falling
35 Zambia 1.87 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 25.5% falling
36 Sweden 1.76 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 7.4% falling
37 Mali 1.75 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 5.4% rising
38 Guinea 1.74 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 5.5% rising
39 Laos 1.63 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 6.5% rising
39 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.63 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 6.5% rising
41 Sudan 1.57 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 22.3% falling
42 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 1.52 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 4.1% falling
43 Cambodia 1.51 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 0.7% falling
44 Hungary 1.48 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 0.7% falling
45 United States 1.46 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 4.6% falling
46 Colombia 1.44 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 9.1% falling
47 Eritrea 1.41 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 7.2% falling
47 Indonesia 1.41 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 3.4% falling
49 Myanmar 1.39 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 24.9% rising
49 Niger 1.39 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.0% rising
51 OECD 1.38 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 0.7% falling
52 Belize 1.37 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.3% falling
52 Kazakhstan 1.37 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 4.2% falling
54 Russia 1.32 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 6.5% falling
54 Uzbekistan 1.32 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.9% rising
54 Russian Federation 1.32 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 6.5% falling
57 France 1.3 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.3% falling
57 Malaysia 1.3 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 12.8% falling
59 Somalia 1.28 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 30.8% falling
59 Thailand 1.28 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 6.6% falling
61 Ukraine 1.26 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 3.1% falling
62 Belgium-Luxembourg 1.23 t CO2eq/cap 1999 down 2.4% flat
63 United Republic of Tanzania 1.22 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 2.4% falling
64 United Kingdom 1.19 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 6.3% falling
64 Panama 1.19 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 4.8% falling
64 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1.19 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 6.3% falling
67 Costa Rica 1.17 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 30.0% falling
68 Germany 1.11 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.3% falling
68 Ethiopia 1.11 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged rising
70 Luxembourg 1.07 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 21.9% falling
71 Burkina Faso 1.06 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.8% flat
72 Bulgaria 1.01 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 8.6% falling
72 Spain 1.01 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 2.9% falling
74 Serbia and Montenegro 1 t CO2eq/cap 2005 down 22.5% falling
75 Greece 0.99 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.3% falling
76 Angola 0.98 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 27.9% falling
76 Belgium 0.98 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.3% falling
76 Dominican Republic 0.98 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged rising
79 Kenya 0.97 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 2.1% flat
80 Pakistan 0.96 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 14.3% rising
80 Eswatini 0.96 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 15.0% falling
80 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 0.96 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 5.5% flat
83 Austria 0.94 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.8% falling
83 Madagascar 0.94 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 18.3% falling
83 Mexico 0.94 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 1.1% falling
83 Serbia 0.94 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.8% falling
83 Slovenia 0.94 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 5.1% falling
83 Niue 0.94 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 4.4% rising
89 Cook Islands 0.92 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.9% rising
90 Congo 0.91 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 24.8% falling
91 Azerbaijan 0.9 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 3.2% falling
91 Romania 0.9 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.4% falling
93 Guinea-Bissau 0.88 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 20.7% falling
94 Albania 0.87 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 29.8% falling
94 Cuba 0.87 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 24.3% falling
94 Kyrgyzstan 0.87 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.4% flat
97 Vanuatu 0.86 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 55.4% falling
98 Peru 0.84 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 9.7% rising
98 Portugal 0.84 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 1.2% falling
100 Turkey 0.83 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 7.8% flat
100 Vietnam 0.83 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 6.7% flat
100 Viet Nam 0.83 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 6.7% flat
100 Türkiye 0.83 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 7.8% flat
104 Croatia 0.81 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged falling
104 East Timor 0.81 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.8% rising
104 Tuvalu 0.81 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 19.1% flat
104 Timor-Leste 0.81 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.8% rising
108 Brunei 0.8 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.0% falling
108 Nepal 0.8 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 24.5% flat
108 Tonga 0.8 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 5.3% flat
108 Brunei Darussalam 0.8 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.0% falling
112 Zimbabwe 0.78 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 17.0% falling
113 Senegal 0.76 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 7.3% falling
113 Uganda 0.76 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 15.6% flat
115 Czechia 0.75 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.5% falling
115 Tajikistan 0.75 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 1.3% rising
117 Switzerland 0.74 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 14.0% falling
118 India 0.73 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 1.4% falling
118 Italy 0.73 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged falling
120 Honduras 0.72 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 7.7% falling
121 Moldova 0.71 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 20.3% falling
121 Samoa 0.71 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 34.3% falling
121 Republic of Moldova 0.71 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 20.3% falling
124 Fiji 0.7 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 39.7% falling
125 Chile 0.69 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 2.8% falling
126 Ecuador 0.68 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 33.3% falling
127 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.67 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 19.3% rising
127 Djibouti 0.67 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 10.7% falling
127 Dominica 0.67 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.1% flat
127 South Africa 0.67 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 19.3% falling
127 China, mainland 0.67 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.1% flat
132 Bangladesh 0.66 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 2.9% falling
132 China 0.66 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.1% flat
134 Montenegro 0.64 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 20.0% falling
135 Guatemala 0.62 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged flat
135 Caribbean 0.62 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 12.7% falling
137 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.61 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.4% rising
138 Libya 0.6 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 9.1% falling
139 Bhutan 0.59 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 21.3% falling
139 Philippines 0.59 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 9.2% falling
141 North Macedonia 0.57 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 19.7% falling
142 Georgia 0.56 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 16.4% flat
143 Malawi 0.55 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 52.8% rising
143 Republic of Korea 0.55 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 6.8% falling
145 Morocco 0.54 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 6.9% rising
145 Mozambique 0.54 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 28.9% falling
145 Polynesia 0.54 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 15.6% flat
148 Lesotho 0.53 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 25.4% falling
149 Tunisia 0.52 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 5.5% falling
150 Burundi 0.51 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 1.9% falling
150 Cameroon 0.51 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 23.9% falling
152 United Arab Emirates 0.5 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 2.0% rising
153 Armenia 0.49 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 21.0% rising
153 Sierra Leone 0.49 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 12.5% rising
153 Tokelau 0.49 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 69.0% rising
156 Benin 0.48 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged falling
156 Saudi Arabia 0.48 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 41.2% falling
158 Oman 0.47 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 2.1% rising
158 Slovakia 0.47 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 14.5% falling
160 Gabon 0.46 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 25.8% falling
161 Grenada 0.44 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 57.1% rising
162 Gambia 0.43 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 30.6% falling
163 Haiti 0.41 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.9% falling
164 Afghanistan 0.39 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 26.4% falling
164 Togo 0.39 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 4.9% falling
166 Cyprus 0.37 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 24.5% falling
166 Israel 0.37 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 2.6% flat
166 Nigeria 0.37 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 5.1% falling
169 Ghana 0.35 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 5.4% falling
169 Japan 0.35 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 2.9% falling
169 Sri Lanka 0.35 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 10.3% falling
169 El Salvador 0.35 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 18.6% falling
173 Algeria 0.34 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 3.0% rising
173 Rwanda 0.34 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 20.9% falling
175 China, Taiwan Province of 0.33 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged falling
176 Cote d'Ivoire 0.32 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 17.9% falling
176 Syria 0.32 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.5% falling
176 Syrian Arab Republic 0.32 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 13.5% falling
176 Côte d'Ivoire 0.32 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 17.9% falling
180 Kuwait 0.31 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged rising
181 Jamaica 0.3 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 16.7% volatile
181 Malta 0.3 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 11.1% falling
183 Egypt 0.27 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 30.8% falling
183 Jordan 0.27 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 12.9% rising
183 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.27 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 25.0% falling
186 Saint Lucia 0.24 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 4.3% falling
186 Democratic People's Republic of Korea 0.24 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 7.7% falling
188 Yemen 0.23 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 28.1% falling
189 Antigua and Barbuda 0.22 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 21.4% falling
189 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.22 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 10.0% falling
189 Cabo Verde 0.22 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 4.3% falling
192 Barbados 0.21 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.7% falling
192 Qatar 0.21 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 31.2% falling
194 Iraq 0.19 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 26.9% falling
195 Trinidad and Tobago 0.18 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 10.0% rising
196 Micronesia 0.17 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 6.2% rising
197 Comoros 0.14 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 12.5% falling
197 Kiribati 0.14 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged rising
199 Lebanon 0.13 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged flat
199 Nauru 0.13 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 7.1% flat
199 Nauru 0.13 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 7.1% flat
202 Solomon Islands 0.12 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 25.0% falling
202 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.12 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 20.0% falling
204 Liberia 0.11 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 15.4% falling
204 Mauritius 0.11 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 8.3% falling
206 Sao Tome and Principe 0.1 t CO2eq/cap 2023 up 11.1% rising
207 Bahrain 0.06 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 25.0% falling
207 Bahamas 0.06 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 45.5% falling
209 Seychelles 0.04 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged volatile
210 Equatorial Guinea 0.01 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 50.0% falling
210 China, Hong Kong SAR 0.01 t CO2eq/cap 2023 unchanged falling
212 Aruba 0 t CO2eq/cap 2023 — volatile
212 Palau 0 t CO2eq/cap 2023 down 100.0% volatile
212 Singapore 0 t CO2eq/cap 2023 — volatile
212 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 t CO2eq/cap 2023 — volatile
212 China, Macao SAR 0 t CO2eq/cap 2023 — volatile

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Farm gate — Emissions per capita
Unit
t CO2eq/cap
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
255 places, 8,446 data points, 1990–2023
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The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions indicators disseminates indicators on sectoral shares of total national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as three indicators of emissions intensity: per capita emissions; emissions per value of agricultural production; and emissions per area of agricultural land.