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

Food Transport — 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
183
Highest
0.0015 kt per person
Gibraltar
Lowest
0 kt per person
Somalia
Median
0.0001 kt per person
Years covered
34
1990–2023
Data points
6,094

What the numbers show

Food Transport — Emissions (CO2), per capita is currently reported for 183 countries. The highest value is 0.0015 kt per person in Gibraltar; the lowest is 0 kt per person in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0001 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 469.

Over the past decade 109 countries rose and 74 fell. The largest increase was in Myanmar (up 369.8%), and the largest decrease in Gabon (down 81.5%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Gibraltar 0.0015 kt per person 2023 up 24.8% rising
2 Saint Martin (French Part) 0.001 kt per person 2023 up 23.7% rising
3 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0.0008 kt per person 2023 down 16.3% falling
4 Palau 0.0007 kt per person 2023 down 9.9% rising
5 Luxembourg 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 41.3% falling
6 Qatar 0.0005 kt per person 2023 down 17.5% rising
7 Saudi Arabia 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 9.3% flat
8 Andorra 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 11.5% falling
9 Canada 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 17.3% rising
10 Kuwait 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 5.2% rising
11 United Arab Emirates 0.0004 kt per person 2023 down 36.1% falling
12 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 6.7% rising
13 Australia 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 14.4% flat
14 Cayman Islands 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 1.4% falling
15 New Zealand 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 9.5% rising
16 Iceland 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 5.6% rising
17 American Samoa 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 14.0% falling
18 Bahrain 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 1.9% rising
19 Libya 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 14.0% rising
20 Marshall Islands 0.0003 kt per person 2023 up 41.6% rising
21 Norway 0.0003 kt per person 2023 down 11.2% rising
22 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 15.2% rising
23 Oman 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 32.1% rising
24 Maldives 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 70.6% rising
25 New Caledonia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 5.6% rising
26 Aruba 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 1.6% flat
27 Faroe Islands 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 0.8% rising
28 Slovenia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 5.6% rising
29 Bahamas 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 48.3% volatile
30 Israel 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 5.1% flat
31 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 10.8% rising
32 Bermuda 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 15.3% falling
33 Switzerland 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 19.5% falling
34 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 19.4% rising
35 Austria 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 13.7% rising
36 Malaysia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 15.7% rising
37 Ireland 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 5.5% rising
38 Lithuania 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 44.7% rising
39 Montenegro 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 86.6% rising
40 Chile 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 13.8% rising
41 French Polynesia 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 12.9% rising
42 Belgium 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 3.5% falling
43 Kazakhstan 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 86.3% rising
44 Seychelles 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 54.3% rising
45 Guyana 0.0002 kt per person 2023 up 74.0% rising
46 Japan 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 12.5% falling
47 Denmark 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 6.4% flat
48 Finland 0.0002 kt per person 2023 down 11.1% flat
49 Poland 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 63.6% rising
50 France 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 4.2% falling
51 Czechia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 16.5% rising
52 North Macedonia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 57.4% rising
53 Barbados 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 13.9% rising
54 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 60.8% rising
55 Estonia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 7.1% rising
56 Spain 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 9.3% flat
57 Panama 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 29.1% rising
58 Uruguay 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 17.0% rising
59 Saint Lucia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 7.5% rising
60 Brazil 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 4.1% rising
61 Serbia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 53.1% rising
62 Germany 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 9.4% falling
63 Italy 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 5.2% falling
64 Thailand 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 36.5% rising
65 Croatia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 28.2% rising
66 Sweden 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 18.3% falling
67 Argentina 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 6.2% rising
68 Greece 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 15.4% rising
69 Latvia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 10.8% rising
70 Paraguay 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 31.1% rising
71 Greenland 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 4.1% rising
72 Lebanon 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 26.8% rising
73 Hungary 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 57.6% rising
74 Costa Rica 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 6.9% rising
75 Portugal 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 5.1% rising
76 Bulgaria 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 55.4% rising
77 Belize 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 7.7% rising
78 Jamaica 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 60.1% rising
79 Belarus 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 13.1% rising
80 Ecuador 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 11.4% rising
81 Georgia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 28.5% volatile
82 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 112.4% rising
83 Mexico 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 21.5% rising
84 Singapore 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 22.7% falling
85 Slovakia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 26.3% rising
86 Turkmenistan 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 18.2% rising
87 Cyprus 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 6.9% falling
88 Fiji 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 77.0% rising
89 British Virgin Islands 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 30.9% flat
90 Grenada 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 27.7% rising
91 Algeria 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 7.8% rising
92 Mauritius 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 20.2% rising
93 Malta 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 4.9% falling
94 Botswana 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 5.9% rising
95 Iraq 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 1.6% falling
96 Tonga 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 38.3% rising
97 Azerbaijan 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 17.4% rising
98 Peru 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 31.4% rising
99 Albania 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 3.9% rising
100 Armenia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 42.5% volatile
101 Romania 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 48.2% rising
102 Dominica 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 3.2% rising
103 Colombia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 39.2% rising
104 Vanuatu 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 157.7% rising
105 South Africa 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 23.3% rising
106 Eswatini 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 29.6% rising
107 El Salvador 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 54.3% rising
108 Jordan 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 23.2% rising
109 Palestine 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 94.6% volatile
110 Suriname 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 181.8% rising
111 Dominican Republic 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 11.5% rising
112 Namibia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 down 21.2% rising
113 Tunisia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 18.5% rising
114 Mongolia 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 49.0% rising
115 Samoa 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 16.2% rising
116 Guatemala 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 50.1% rising
117 Honduras 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 52.3% rising
118 Uzbekistan 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 219.7% rising
119 Morocco 0.0001 kt per person 2023 up 3.4% rising
120 Mauritania 0 kt per person 2023 up 70.9% rising
121 Cambodia 0 kt per person 2023 up 80.4% volatile
122 Sri Lanka 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.8% rising
123 Northern Mariana Islands 0 kt per person 2023 up 1.8% falling
124 Ukraine 0 kt per person 2023 down 39.8% flat
125 Nicaragua 0 kt per person 2023 up 23.9% rising
126 Equatorial Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 down 18.7% volatile
127 Comoros 0 kt per person 2023 up 122.2% volatile
128 Ghana 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.0% rising
129 Egypt 0 kt per person 2023 down 37.0% rising
130 Benin 0 kt per person 2023 down 12.7% rising
131 Philippines 0 kt per person 2023 up 25.8% rising
132 Nigeria 0 kt per person 2023 up 8.6% rising
133 Senegal 0 kt per person 2023 up 57.7% rising
134 Myanmar 0 kt per person 2023 up 369.8% volatile
135 China 0 kt per person 2023 up 7.6% rising
136 Tuvalu 0 kt per person 2023 down 1.2% flat
137 Indonesia 0 kt per person 2023 down 44.9% rising
138 Tajikistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 114.9% volatile
139 Sudan 0 kt per person 2023 up 4.3% flat
140 Lesotho 0 kt per person 2023 up 14.5% rising
141 Angola 0 kt per person 2023 down 22.0% rising
142 Kiribati 0 kt per person 2023 up 10.2% rising
143 Pakistan 0 kt per person 2023 up 27.2% rising
144 Solomon Islands 0 kt per person 2023 down 48.6% falling
145 Bhutan 0 kt per person 2023 up 130.3% volatile
146 Kyrgyzstan 0 kt per person 2023 down 70.9% rising
147 Congo 0 kt per person 2023 down 50.5% rising
148 Kenya 0 kt per person 2023 up 44.8% rising
149 Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 up 84.0% volatile
150 Sao Tome and Principe 0 kt per person 2023 down 16.1% rising
151 Zambia 0 kt per person 2023 up 43.9% rising
152 Mali 0 kt per person 2023 up 102.3% volatile
153 Togo 0 kt per person 2023 up 38.0% rising
154 Burkina Faso 0 kt per person 2023 up 53.2% rising
155 Zimbabwe 0 kt per person 2023 down 32.9% falling
156 Papua New Guinea 0 kt per person 2023 down 9.9% rising
157 Nepal 0 kt per person 2023 up 25.8% volatile
158 Cameroon 0 kt per person 2023 down 13.2% rising
159 Mozambique 0 kt per person 2023 up 61.3% rising
160 Haiti 0 kt per person 2023 up 34.5% rising
161 Djibouti 0 kt per person 2023 up 3.3% rising
162 Afghanistan 0 kt per person 2023 down 3.8% volatile
163 Cuba 0 kt per person 2023 down 23.4% volatile
164 Sierra Leone 0 kt per person 2023 up 23.6% volatile
165 India 0 kt per person 2023 down 46.4% flat
166 Niger 0 kt per person 2023 up 72.1% rising
167 Gabon 0 kt per person 2023 down 81.5% falling
168 Chad 0 kt per person 2023 down 22.7% rising
169 South Sudan 0 kt per person 2023 down 6.8% falling
170 Uganda 0 kt per person 2023 up 20.2% rising
171 Bangladesh 0 kt per person 2023 up 40.6% rising
172 Liberia 0 kt per person 2023 down 36.5% rising
173 Yemen 0 kt per person 2023 down 75.8% falling
174 Eritrea 0 kt per person 2023 up 9.0% falling
175 Rwanda 0 kt per person 2023 up 51.1% flat
176 Central African Republic 0 kt per person 2023 up 235.6% rising
177 Malawi 0 kt per person 2023 up 28.8% rising
178 Ethiopia 0 kt per person 2023 up 46.2% rising
179 Madagascar 0 kt per person 2023 up 25.8% flat
180 Burundi 0 kt per person 2023 up 66.1% rising
181 Guinea-Bissau 0 kt per person 2023 down 31.3% rising
182 Gambia 0 kt per person 2023 down 8.7% falling
183 Somalia 0 kt per person 2023 down 4.5% 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 Transport — 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 Transport — Emissions (CO2) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Food Transport — Emissions (CO2), per capita
Unit
kt per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
185 places, 6,094 data points, 1990–2023
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Food Transport — 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.