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Top 10 Largest CO₂ Emitting Countries

The countries releasing the most carbon dioxide each year.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by co₂ emissions excluding land use (mt co₂e)
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: World Bank Open Data

  1. China

    Data year 2024

    13,125 Mt CO₂

    No change

  2. United States

    Data year 2024

    4,632 Mt CO₂

    No change

  3. India

    Data year 2024

    3,154 Mt CO₂

    No change
  1. 4Russian FederationData year 20242,009 Mt CO₂No change
  2. 5JapanData year 2024972 Mt CO₂No change
  3. 6Iran, Islamic Rep.Data year 2024829 Mt CO₂No change
  4. 7IndonesiaData year 2024812 Mt CO₂No change
  5. 8Saudi ArabiaData year 2024653 Mt CO₂No change
  6. 9Korea, Rep.Data year 2022588 Mt CO₂No change
  7. 10GermanyData year 2024580 Mt CO₂No change
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  1. 11CanadaData year 2024578 Mt CO₂No change
  2. 12BrazilData year 2024491 Mt CO₂No change
  3. 13MexicoData year 2024476 Mt CO₂No change
  4. 14TurkiyeData year 2024460 Mt CO₂No change
  5. 15South AfricaData year 2024440 Mt CO₂No change
  6. 16Viet NamData year 2024431 Mt CO₂No change
  7. 17AustraliaData year 2024383 Mt CO₂No change
  8. 18ItalyData year 2024299 Mt CO₂No change
  9. 19MalaysiaData year 2024296 Mt CO₂No change
  10. 20United KingdomData year 2024292 Mt CO₂No change
  11. 21Egypt, Arab Rep.Data year 2023292 Mt CO₂No change
  12. 22ThailandData year 2024284 Mt CO₂No change
  13. 23PolandData year 2024276 Mt CO₂No change
  14. 24FranceData year 2024274 Mt CO₂No change
  15. 25KazakhstanData year 2024259 Mt CO₂No change
  16. 26IraqData year 2024239 Mt CO₂No change
  17. 27SpainData year 2024220 Mt CO₂No change
  18. 28PakistanData year 2024204 Mt CO₂No change
  19. 29United Arab EmiratesData year 2024201 Mt CO₂No change
  20. 30AlgeriaData year 2024186 Mt CO₂No change
  21. 31ArgentinaData year 2024183 Mt CO₂No change
  22. 32PhilippinesData year 2024174 Mt CO₂No change
  23. 33UzbekistanData year 2023149 Mt CO₂No change
  24. 34QatarData year 2024135 Mt CO₂No change
  25. 35NigeriaData year 2024132 Mt CO₂No change
  26. 36BangladeshData year 2024124 Mt CO₂No change
  27. 37NetherlandsData year 2024119 Mt CO₂No change
  28. 38UkraineData year 2024118 Mt CO₂No change
  29. 39KuwaitData year 2024116 Mt CO₂No change
  30. 40OmanData year 202499 Mt CO₂No change
  31. 41Venezuela, RBData year 202496 Mt CO₂No change
  32. 42ColombiaData year 202095 Mt CO₂No change
  33. 43BelgiumData year 202287 Mt CO₂No change
  34. 44TurkmenistanData year 202481 Mt CO₂No change
  35. 45ChileData year 202578 Mt CO₂No change
  36. 46CzechiaData year 202478 Mt CO₂No change
  37. 47RomaniaData year 202471 Mt CO₂No change
  38. 48MoroccoData year 202470 Mt CO₂No change
  39. 49PeruData year 202369 Mt CO₂No change
  40. 50Korea, Dem. People's Rep.Data year 202466 Mt CO₂No change

How this list is ranked

CO₂ emissions excluding land use (Mt CO₂e) (World Bank indicator EN.GHG.CO2.MT.CE.AR5), latest year available for each country, from the last 6 years only.

Data from World Bank Open Data, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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