Waste — Emissions (CO2), per unit of GDP by country
Waste — Emissions (CO2) divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Countries reporting
126
Highest
0 kt per US$ of GDP
Sierra Leone
Lowest
0 kt per US$ of GDP
Latvia
Median
0 kt per US$ of GDP
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
7,240
What the numbers show
Waste — Emissions (CO2), per unit of GDP is currently reported for 126 countries. The highest value is 0 kt per US$ of GDP in Sierra Leone; the lowest is 0 kt per US$ of GDP in Latvia.
The median across all reporting countries is 0 kt per US$ of GDP, and the mean is 0 kt per US$ of GDP.
Over the past decade 28 countries rose and 98 fell. The largest increase was in Kazakhstan (up 2,183.1%), and the largest decrease in Croatia (down 100.0%).
Waste — Emissions (CO2), per unit of GDP: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sierra Leone | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 44.1% | volatile |
| 2 | Tajikistan | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 16.8% | volatile |
| 3 | Ghana | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 349.1% | volatile |
| 4 | Guinea-Bissau | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 34.0% | volatile |
| 5 | Lesotho | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 24.1% | volatile |
| 6 | Spain | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 16.7% | volatile |
| 7 | Nepal | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 2.2% | volatile |
| 8 | Guatemala | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 23.6% | volatile |
| 9 | Mauritania | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 271.7% | volatile |
| 10 | North Macedonia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 28.9% | falling |
| 11 | Laos | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 3.9% | volatile |
| 12 | Honduras | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 30.6% | volatile |
| 13 | Costa Rica | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 44.9% | volatile |
| 14 | France | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 4.6% | volatile |
| 15 | Andorra | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 8.5% | volatile |
| 16 | Japan | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 7.6% | volatile |
| 17 | Myanmar | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 6.9% | volatile |
| 18 | Portugal | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 12.2% | volatile |
| 19 | Burundi | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 2.6% | volatile |
| 20 | Tunisia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 54.8% | volatile |
| 21 | Maldives | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 33.3% | volatile |
| 22 | Mali | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 2.1% | volatile |
| 23 | Nigeria | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 34.3% | volatile |
| 24 | Samoa | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 79.9% | volatile |
| 25 | Mozambique | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 49.2% | volatile |
| 26 | Philippines | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 20.6% | volatile |
| 27 | Afghanistan | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 0.2% | volatile |
| 28 | Somalia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 30.2% | volatile |
| 29 | Cambodia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 42.6% | falling |
| 30 | Panama | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 26.0% | volatile |
| 31 | Mexico | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 13.4% | volatile |
| 32 | Sweden | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 4.0% | volatile |
| 33 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 63.0% | volatile |
| 34 | Namibia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 26.3% | volatile |
| 35 | Poland | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 15.5% | volatile |
| 36 | China | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 32.3% | volatile |
| 37 | Malaysia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 0.4% | volatile |
| 38 | Sao Tome and Principe | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 47.7% | volatile |
| 39 | Rwanda | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 32.3% | volatile |
| 40 | Italy | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 15.8% | volatile |
| 41 | Guinea | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 53.6% | volatile |
| 42 | Belarus | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 31.8% | volatile |
| 43 | Czechia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 38.9% | falling |
| 44 | Moldova | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 43.6% | volatile |
| 45 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 31.2% | volatile |
| 46 | Brazil | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 25.3% | volatile |
| 47 | Monaco | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 27.6% | volatile |
| 48 | Indonesia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 16.7% | volatile |
| 49 | Albania | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 39.0% | volatile |
| 50 | Brunei | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 33.7% | volatile |
| 51 | Dominica | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 6.7% | volatile |
| 52 | Vietnam | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 34.0% | volatile |
| 53 | San Marino | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 23.2% | falling |
| 54 | Norway | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 35.1% | volatile |
| 55 | Hungary | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 80.1% | volatile |
| 56 | Slovakia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 10.2% | volatile |
| 57 | Cote d'Ivoire | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 25.2% | volatile |
| 58 | Singapore | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 31.1% | volatile |
| 59 | Montenegro | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 37.7% | falling |
| 60 | Serbia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 38.5% | falling |
| 61 | East Timor | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 17.0% | volatile |
| 62 | South Africa | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 41.7% | volatile |
| 63 | Ukraine | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 0.3% | volatile |
| 64 | Slovenia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 56.1% | volatile |
| 65 | Zambia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 28.0% | volatile |
| 66 | Bahamas | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 23.2% | volatile |
| 67 | Suriname | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 55.8% | volatile |
| 68 | Colombia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 17.9% | volatile |
| 69 | Canada | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 8.7% | volatile |
| 70 | Mongolia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 31.4% | volatile |
| 71 | Ecuador | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 5.6% | volatile |
| 72 | Thailand | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 3.4% | volatile |
| 73 | Peru | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 13.4% | volatile |
| 74 | Azerbaijan | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 20.0% | volatile |
| 75 | Jamaica | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 28.7% | volatile |
| 76 | Papua New Guinea | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 18.9% | volatile |
| 77 | Zimbabwe | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 23.1% | volatile |
| 78 | Lithuania | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 74.6% | volatile |
| 79 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 1.0% | volatile |
| 80 | Belize | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 14.3% | volatile |
| 81 | Chile | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 3.8% | volatile |
| 82 | Togo | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 10.5% | volatile |
| 83 | Benin | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 7.1% | volatile |
| 84 | Iceland | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 75.2% | volatile |
| 85 | Argentina | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 4.7% | volatile |
| 86 | Gabon | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 19.3% | volatile |
| 87 | Uruguay | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 19.0% | volatile |
| 88 | United Kingdom | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 36.3% | volatile |
| 89 | Ireland | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 77.1% | volatile |
| 90 | Kenya | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 13.4% | volatile |
| 91 | Saint Lucia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 28.4% | volatile |
| 92 | Romania | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 47.6% | volatile |
| 93 | Malta | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 65.5% | volatile |
| 94 | Bulgaria | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 96.9% | volatile |
| 95 | Burkina Faso | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 3.2% | volatile |
| 96 | Ethiopia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 45.2% | volatile |
| 97 | Denmark | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 11.1% | volatile |
| 98 | Algeria | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 18.2% | volatile |
| 99 | Australia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 6.3% | volatile |
| 100 | Switzerland | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 33.0% | volatile |
| 101 | New Zealand | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 35.2% | volatile |
| 102 | Guyana | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 74.2% | volatile |
| 103 | Greece | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 38.3% | volatile |
| 104 | Germany | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 84.8% | volatile |
| 105 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 3.4% | volatile |
| 106 | Liechtenstein | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 34.3% | volatile |
| 107 | Cuba | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2020 | down 43.2% | falling |
| 108 | Dominican Republic | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 36.2% | volatile |
| 109 | Mauritius | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 11.6% | volatile |
| 110 | Jordan | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 8.4% | volatile |
| 111 | Belgium | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 88.3% | volatile |
| 112 | Estonia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 75.4% | volatile |
| 113 | Paraguay | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 21.8% | volatile |
| 114 | Kuwait | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 39.3% | volatile |
| 115 | Turkey | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 62.4% | volatile |
| 116 | Palau | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 18.1% | falling |
| 117 | Austria | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 17.4% | volatile |
| 118 | Egypt | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 12.2% | volatile |
| 119 | Bhutan | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 53.7% | volatile |
| 120 | Kazakhstan | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 2,183.1% | volatile |
| 121 | Congo | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 58.9% | volatile |
| 122 | Lebanon | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 181.2% | volatile |
| 123 | Qatar | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | up 24.0% | volatile |
| 124 | United States | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 38.2% | volatile |
| 125 | Croatia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
| 125 | Latvia | 0 kt per US$ of GDP | 2023 | down 100.0% | volatile |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 0 kt per US$ of GDP
How this figure is calculated
Waste — Emissions (CO2) divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.
Waste — Emissions (CO2) ÷ GDP (current US$)
Computed from
- Waste — Emissions Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- GDP Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks
Statizoid computes this series; the underlying measurements belong to the publishers named above. The arithmetic is applied to every country and year where both inputs report, and nothing is estimated unless the page says so.
About this data
Waste — Emissions (CO2) divided by GDP (current US$), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.