1
🇵🇼Palau
82.8 t
2
🇶🇦Qatar
47.3 t
3
🇧🇭Bahrain
23.9 t
4
🇰🇼Kuwait
23.7 t
5
🇧🇳Brunei
20.2 t
6
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
19.6 t
7
🇴🇲Oman
18.7 t
8
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
18.5 t
9
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
18.3 t
10
🇳🇨New Caledonia
17.1 t
11
🇬🇮Gibraltar
16.1 t
12
🇦🇺Australia
14.1 t
13
🇨🇦Canada
14.0 t
14
🇷🇺Russia
14.0 t
15
🇺🇸United States
13.6 t
16
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
12.6 t
17
🇰🇷South Korea
11.4 t
18
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
10.9 t
19
🇱🇺Luxembourg
10.6 t
20
🇬🇱Greenland
10.5 t
21
🇸🇬Singapore
9.8 t
22
🇨🇳China
9.3 t
23
🇮🇷Iran
9.1 t
24
🇱🇾Libya
8.7 t
25
🇮🇸Iceland
8.5 t
26
🇲🇾Malaysia
8.3 t
27
🇲🇳Mongolia
7.8 t
28
🇯🇵Japan
7.8 t
29
🇪🇪Estonia
7.8 t
30
🇵🇱Poland
7.6 t
31
🇧🇪Belgium
7.3 t
32
🇸🇨Seychelles
7.2 t
33
🇳🇴Norway
7.2 t
34
🇨🇿Czechia
7.1 t
35
🇩🇪Germany
6.9 t
36
🇿🇦South Africa
6.9 t
37
🇳🇱Netherlands
6.6 t
38
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
6.4 t
39
🇦🇹Austria
6.3 t
40
🇸🇮Slovenia
6.3 t
41
🇮🇪Ireland
6.0 t
42
🇳🇿New Zealand
6.0 t
43
🇧🇾Belarus
5.9 t
44
🇮🇱Israel
5.8 t
45
🇫🇮Finland
5.5 t
46
🇸🇰Slovakia
5.5 t
47
🇨🇾Cyprus
5.4 t
48
🇹🇷Türkiye
5.4 t
49
🇧🇬Bulgaria
5.3 t
50
🇮🇶Iraq
5.2 t
Highlights
As of 2024, Palau ranks first with 82.8 t, followed by Qatar (47.3 t) and Bahrain (23.9 t).
Palau is 1.8 times higher than Qatar, the runner-up.
Across 203 countries and territories, values run from 82.8 t (Palau) to 0.0 t (Tuvalu), with a median of 2.6 t.
By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia, 2 from Oceania and 1 from the Americas.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions excluding LULUCF per capita (t CO2e/capita), 2024. Unit: tonnes per person.
Source: World Bank Open Data — Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions excluding LULUCF per capita (t CO2e/capita) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 13, 2026