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Food Retail — Emissions (CO2), per capita by country

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
175
Highest
0.0005 kt per person
Oman
Lowest
0 kt per person
Gambia
Median
0 kt per person
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
5,422

What the numbers show

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2), per capita is currently reported for 175 countries. The highest value is 0.0005 kt per person in Oman; the lowest is 0 kt per person in Gambia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0 kt per person, and the mean is 0.0001 kt per person.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7,533.

Over the past decade 99 countries rose and 74 fell. The largest increase was in Tajikistan (up 15,681.6%), and the largest decrease in South Sudan (down 69.1%).

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2), per capita (Food capita): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Oman 0.0005 kt per person 2023 up 329.5% volatile
2 Aruba 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 12.0% falling
3 Turkmenistan 0.0004 kt per person 2023 up 40.9% rising
4 Bahamas 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 11.4% volatile
5 Puerto Rico 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 3.3% rising
6 Bahrain 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 14.3% rising
7 United Arab Emirates 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 5.3% falling
8 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 2.1% rising
9 Saudi Arabia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 16.6% rising
10 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 23.7% rising
11 Barbados 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 15.4% volatile
12 Kuwait 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 16.0% rising
13 Palau 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 10.6% falling
14 Estonia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 26.0% rising
15 Japan 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 16.9% rising
16 Qatar 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 25.8% rising
17 Singapore 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 10.3% volatile
18 Mongolia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 36.7% volatile
19 Kazakhstan 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 38.6% volatile
20 Saint Lucia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 2.0% rising
21 Australia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 20.2% rising
22 Luxembourg 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 43.3% falling
23 Grenada 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 11.1% rising
24 Poland 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 10.3% rising
25 Cyprus 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 7.2% rising
26 Ireland 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 15.3% falling
27 Dominica 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 5.2% volatile
28 Panama 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 70.9% volatile
29 Israel 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 28.2% flat
30 Nauru 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 72.9% rising
31 Germany 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 39.1% falling
32 Malaysia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 9.5% volatile
33 Czechia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 15.3% falling
34 Botswana 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 51.4% volatile
35 Seychelles 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 44.5% volatile
36 Serbia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 18.9% rising
37 Greece 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 19.0% rising
38 Jamaica 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 95.5% volatile
39 Montenegro 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 779.9% volatile
40 Malta 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 50.1% rising
41 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 67.2% volatile
42 South Africa 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 14.7% rising
43 Belgium 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 29.7% falling
44 Mauritius 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 13.4% volatile
45 Bulgaria 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 19.9% volatile
46 Canada 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 4.1% falling
47 Italy 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 13.3% rising
48 Greenland 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 16.3% rising
49 Gibraltar 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 245.6% volatile
50 American Samoa 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 40.1% falling
51 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 17.5% rising
52 Chile 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 3.4% rising
53 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 0.8% rising
54 Gabon 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 292.6% volatile
55 Latvia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 4.0% flat
56 Finland 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 36.6% rising
57 Faroe Islands 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 31.9% falling
58 Belarus 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 22.0% falling
59 Switzerland 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 31.7% falling
60 Thailand 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 11.3% volatile
61 Marshall Islands 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 12.0% falling
62 Uganda 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 194.7% volatile
63 Argentina 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 19.4% volatile
64 Belize 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 105.5% volatile
65 Slovenia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 34.1% falling
66 Slovakia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 45.0% volatile
67 Hungary 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 23.1% falling
68 Dominican Republic 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 60.8% rising
69 Maldives 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 266.3% volatile
70 Spain 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 19.0% rising
71 Portugal 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 12.8% rising
72 Croatia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 6.7% rising
73 North Macedonia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 22.5% rising
74 Ukraine 0 kt per person 2023 down 10.5% rising
75 Namibia 0 kt per person 2023 up 440.8% volatile
76 Samoa 0 kt per person 2023 up 45.5% rising
77 France 0 kt per person 2023 down 29.6% falling
78 Fiji 0 kt per person 2023 up 17.8% rising
79 Austria 0 kt per person 2023 down 24.0% falling
80 Azerbaijan 0 kt per person 2023 up 27.2% rising
81 Tuvalu 0 kt per person 2023 up 57.3% rising
82 Denmark 0 kt per person 2023 down 60.3% falling
83 Suriname 0 kt per person 2023 down 51.1% volatile
84 Guyana 0 kt per person 2023 down 1.3% volatile
85 New Zealand 0 kt per person 2023 down 13.5% flat
86 Madagascar 0 kt per person 2023 up 56.5% volatile
87 Uzbekistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 13.6% rising
88 Romania 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.3% rising
89 Lebanon 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.7% rising
90 Tunisia 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.5% rising
91 Egypt 0 kt per person 2023 up 80.8% rising
92 Morocco 0 kt per person 2023 up 34.6% volatile
93 Libya 0 kt per person 2023 down 58.4% volatile
94 Georgia 0 kt per person 2023 up 69.8% rising
95 Cameroon 0 kt per person 2023 up 19.4% falling
96 Lithuania 0 kt per person 2023 down 49.7% falling
97 Nicaragua 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.9% volatile
98 Norway 0 kt per person 2023 down 3.6% rising
99 Guatemala 0 kt per person 2023 up 61.9% rising
100 Indonesia 0 kt per person 2023 up 76.3% volatile
101 Philippines 0 kt per person 2023 up 41.9% volatile
102 Myanmar 0 kt per person 2023 up 18.4% rising
103 Bhutan 0 kt per person 2023 up 482.9% volatile
104 Honduras 0 kt per person 2023 down 10.8% rising
105 Palestine 0 kt per person 2023 down 2.6% rising
106 Burkina Faso 0 kt per person 2023 up 191.9% volatile
107 Tonga 0 kt per person 2023 up 39.5% rising
108 Zimbabwe 0 kt per person 2023 up 99.6% flat
109 Benin 0 kt per person 2023 down 3.9% rising
110 Ecuador 0 kt per person 2023 down 41.8% rising
111 Peru 0 kt per person 2023 down 32.3% volatile
112 Jordan 0 kt per person 2023 down 34.8% volatile
113 Sweden 0 kt per person 2023 down 12.9% falling
114 Brazil 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.8% volatile
115 Togo 0 kt per person 2023 up 5.8% rising
116 Colombia 0 kt per person 2023 up 15.7% rising
117 Sri Lanka 0 kt per person 2023 up 139.5% volatile
118 Cambodia 0 kt per person 2023 up 162.8% volatile
119 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per person 2023 up 276.1% volatile
120 Nepal 0 kt per person 2023 up 66.0% volatile
121 Djibouti 0 kt per person 2023 up 29.7% rising
122 Eswatini 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.0% volatile
123 Mexico 0 kt per person 2023 down 42.0% falling
124 Congo 0 kt per person 2023 up 548.4% volatile
125 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per person 2023 up 52.4% volatile
126 El Salvador 0 kt per person 2023 down 30.5% rising
127 Niger 0 kt per person 2023 down 1.8% falling
128 Mauritania 0 kt per person 2023 up 65.9% rising
129 Albania 0 kt per person 2023 up 20.8% volatile
130 Sudan 0 kt per person 2023 up 80.9% rising
131 Armenia 0 kt per person 2023 down 42.0% volatile
132 Nigeria 0 kt per person 2023 down 3.9% flat
133 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 down 24.0% volatile
134 Algeria 0 kt per person 2023 — volatile
135 Uruguay 0 kt per person 2023 down 66.5% volatile
136 Senegal 0 kt per person 2023 up 75.3% volatile
137 India 0 kt per person 2023 down 13.4% volatile
138 Cuba 0 kt per person 2023 up 30.6% volatile
139 Mali 0 kt per person 2023 up 23.0% rising
140 Lesotho 0 kt per person 2023 down 59.6% rising
141 Eritrea 0 kt per person 2023 up 10.3% falling
142 Costa Rica 0 kt per person 2023 down 57.9% volatile
143 New Caledonia 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.0% falling
144 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 up 50.0% volatile
145 Angola 0 kt per person 2023 down 65.6% volatile
146 Central African Republic 0 kt per person 2023 up 883.0% volatile
147 Ghana 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.1% volatile
148 Iraq 0 kt per person 2023 down 26.0% falling
149 Kiribati 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.4% falling
150 Vanuatu 0 kt per person 2023 down 34.4% rising
151 Pakistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 34.0% volatile
152 Haiti 0 kt per person 2023 down 13.0% flat
153 Bangladesh 0 kt per person 2023 up 106.2% volatile
154 Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 up 446.3% rising
155 China 0 kt per person 2023 up 10.3% rising
156 Tajikistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 15,681.6% volatile
157 Kenya 0 kt per person 2023 up 244.7% volatile
158 Malawi 0 kt per person 2023 up 28.1% rising
159 Comoros 0 kt per person 2023 up 80.1% rising
160 Solomon Islands 0 kt per person 2023 down 49.2% rising
161 Ethiopia 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.1% volatile
162 Rwanda 0 kt per person 2023 up 210.5% rising
163 Mozambique 0 kt per person 2023 up 332.1% volatile
164 Zambia 0 kt per person 2023 up 40.2% rising
165 Afghanistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 144.0% volatile
166 Yemen 0 kt per person 2023 down 67.8% volatile
167 Guinea-Bissau 0 kt per person 2023 up 656.1% volatile
168 Sierra Leone 0 kt per person 2023 up 126.6% volatile
169 Iceland 0 kt per person 2023 down 35.2% volatile
170 Paraguay 0 kt per person 2023 up 18.0% rising
171 South Sudan 0 kt per person 2023 down 69.1% volatile
172 Chad 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.4% rising
173 Liberia 0 kt per person 2023 up 66.2% rising
174 Burundi 0 kt per person 2023 up 2.7% rising
175 Gambia 0 kt per person 1994 — falling

Regions and income groups

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

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Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Food Retail — Emissions (CO2), per capita
Unit
kt per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
177 places, 5,422 data points, 1990–2023
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Food Retail — Emissions (CO2) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.