Data

Fossil carbon dioxide emissions per person

Each country's fossil carbon dioxide emissions in a year divided by its population, as the Global Carbon Project publishes them.

Latest value

4.73t CO₂/person

Countries and territories, three historical entities and the world, 2024. Version 2025v15.

Fossil carbon dioxide emissions per person (tonnes of carbon dioxide per person per year)

275 values from 1750 to 2024.

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Fossil carbon dioxide emissions per person, every value
Period	Value (t CO₂/person)	Status
1750	0.01	final
1751	0.01	final
1752	0.01	final
1753	0.01	final
1754	0.01	final
1755	0.01	final
1756	0.01	final
1757	0.01	final
1758	0.01	final
1759	0.01	final
1760	0.01	final
1761	0.01	final
1762	0.01	final
1763	0.01	final
1764	0.01	final
1765	0.01	final
1766	0.01	final
1767	0.01	final
1768	0.01	final
1769	0.01	final
1770	0.01	final
1771	0.02	final
1772	0.02	final
1773	0.02	final
1774	0.02	final
1775	0.02	final
1776	0.02	final
1777	0.02	final
1778	0.02	final
1779	0.02	final
1780	0.02	final
1781	0.02	final
1782	0.02	final
1783	0.02	final
1784	0.02	final
1785	0.02	final
1786	0.02	final
1787	0.02	final
1788	0.02	final
1789	0.02	final
1790	0.02	final
1791	0.02	final
1792	0.02	final
1793	0.02	final
1794	0.02	final
1795	0.02	final
1796	0.02	final
1797	0.02	final
1798	0.02	final
1799	0.03	final
1800	0.03	final
1801	0.03	final
1802	0.04	final
1803	0.03	final
1804	0.03	final
1805	0.03	final
1806	0.03	final
1807	0.04	final
1808	0.03	final
1809	0.04	final
1810	0.04	final
1811	0.04	final
1812	0.04	final
1813	0.04	final
1814	0.04	final
1815	0.04	final
1816	0.04	final
1817	0.05	final
1818	0.05	final
1819	0.05	final
1820	0.05	final
1821	0.05	final
1822	0.05	final
1823	0.05	final
1824	0.05	final
1825	0.05	final
1826	0.05	final
1827	0.06	final
1828	0.06	final
1829	0.06	final
1830	0.08	final
1831	0.07	final
1832	0.07	final
1833	0.07	final
1834	0.08	final
1835	0.08	final
1836	0.09	final
1837	0.09	final
1838	0.09	final
1839	0.09	final
1840	0.10	final
1841	0.10	final
1842	0.11	final
1843	0.11	final
1844	0.12	final
1845	0.13	final
1846	0.13	final
1847	0.14	final
1848	0.14	final
1849	0.15	final
1850	0.16	final
1851	0.16	final
1852	0.16	final
1853	0.17	final
1854	0.20	final
1855	0.20	final
1856	0.21	final
1857	0.21	final
1858	0.22	final
1859	0.23	final
1860	0.25	final
1861	0.26	final
1862	0.27	final
1863	0.28	final
1864	0.30	final
1865	0.32	final
1866	0.33	final
1867	0.35	final
1868	0.36	final
1869	0.38	final
1870	0.38	final
1871	0.41	final
1872	0.45	final
1873	0.47	final
1874	0.44	final
1875	0.47	final
1876	0.48	final
1877	0.49	final
1878	0.49	final
1879	0.52	final
1880	0.58	final
1881	0.60	final
1882	0.63	final
1883	0.67	final
1884	0.67	final
1885	0.67	final
1886	0.68	final
1887	0.71	final
1888	0.78	final
1889	0.78	final
1890	0.84	final
1891	0.87	final
1892	0.88	final
1893	0.86	final
1894	0.88	final
1895	0.93	final
1896	0.96	final
1897	1.00	final
1898	1.04	final
1899	1.13	final
1900	1.19	final
1901	1.22	final
1902	1.24	final
1903	1.34	final
1904	1.35	final
1905	1.43	final
1906	1.48	final
1907	1.67	final
1908	1.59	final
1909	1.65	final
1910	1.72	final
1911	1.73	final
1912	1.81	final
1913	1.94	final
1914	1.75	final
1915	1.71	final
1916	1.83	final
1917	1.90	final
1918	1.86	final
1919	1.60	final
1920	1.85	final
1921	1.62	final
1922	1.68	final
1923	1.89	final
1924	1.88	final
1925	1.87	final
1926	1.82	final
1927	1.97	final
1928	1.95	final
1929	2.07	final
1930	1.89	final
1931	1.68	final
1932	1.50	final
1933	1.56	final
1934	1.68	final
1935	1.74	final
1936	1.89	final
1937	2.00	final
1938	1.87	final
1939	1.95	final
1940	2.12	final
1941	2.15	final
1942	2.13	final
1943	2.15	final
1944	2.18	final
1945	1.80	final
1946	1.92	final
1947	2.13	final
1948	2.23	final
1949	2.11	final
1950	2.38	final
1951	2.52	final
1952	2.50	final
1953	2.52	final
1954	2.53	final
1955	2.72	final
1956	2.84	final
1957	2.87	final
1958	2.89	final
1959	2.99	final
1960	3.11	final
1961	3.07	final
1962	3.12	final
1963	3.22	final
1964	3.32	final
1965	3.39	final
1966	3.48	final
1967	3.52	final
1968	3.64	final
1969	3.80	final
1970	4.03	final
1971	4.11	final
1972	4.22	final
1973	4.36	final
1974	4.25	final
1975	4.17	final
1976	4.31	final
1977	4.35	final
1978	4.43	final
1979	4.47	final
1980	4.36	final
1981	4.17	final
1982	4.06	final
1983	4.02	final
1984	4.07	final
1985	4.14	final
1986	4.12	final
1987	4.18	final
1988	4.26	final
1989	4.24	final
1990	4.27	final
1991	4.28	final
1992	4.09	final
1993	4.07	final
1994	4.05	final
1995	4.08	final
1996	4.15	final
1997	4.11	final
1998	4.04	final
1999	4.08	final
2000	4.13	final
2001	4.11	final
2002	4.14	final
2003	4.31	final
2004	4.40	final
2005	4.49	final
2006	4.59	final
2007	4.66	final
2008	4.68	final
2009	4.55	final
2010	4.74	final
2011	4.85	final
2012	4.85	final
2013	4.84	final
2014	4.80	final
2015	4.74	final
2016	4.68	final
2017	4.71	final
2018	4.75	final
2019	4.75	final
2020	4.46	final
2021	4.63	final
2022	4.68	final
2023	4.71	final
2024	4.73	final

Andrew and Peters (2025), The Global Carbon Project's fossil CO2 emissions dataset, version 2025v15, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17417124, CC BY 4.0. Part of the Global Carbon Budget 2025 (Friedlingstein et al., 2026, Earth Syst. Sci. Data 18, 3211–3288). CC BY 4.0.

Where it comes from

Producer: Global Carbon Project (Robbie M. Andrew and Glen P. Peters, CICERO) · The Global Carbon Project's fossil CO2 emissions dataset, 2025 release
Version: 2025v15
File: https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat.csv/content
Fetched: 2026-10-04 (automatically), 3,147,221 bytes
Fingerprint: sha256 20650c19b394d91b6b31cddff2fbc9508bcdbbed7c3f93660336f2f655f367ff
Copies: No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
Cite the producer: Andrew, R. M. and Peters, G. P.: The Global Carbon Project’s fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15), https://zenodo.org/records/17417124, 2025.

Producer: Global Carbon Project (Robbie M. Andrew and Glen P. Peters, CICERO) · The Global Carbon Project's fossil CO2 emissions dataset, 2025 release
Version: 2025v15
File: https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat_metadata.json/content
Fetched: 2026-10-04 (automatically), 3,784 bytes
Fingerprint: sha256 b41c76163ac6258fee7203c417a0def6b2e7300dc59943de654b913e824f3cd4
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Cite the producer: Andrew, R. M. and Peters, G. P.: The Global Carbon Project’s fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15), https://zenodo.org/records/17417124, 2025.

What was done to it

Read GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat.csv (version 2025v15): 222 entities (countries, territories, international aviation, international shipping, three historical entities and the world), each 1750–2024, in million tonnes of carbon dioxide. The metadata file's titles, units and version were checked against the columns. Producer codes were mapped to entity codes through an explicit alias table (KSV Kosovo, XIA international aviation, XIS international shipping; the Kuwaiti oil fires, the Pacific Islands (Palau) and the Ryukyu Islands by name).
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcp_fossil_national.py · code sha256 9cbf1047ea48dc4b… · inputs 20650c19b394… b41c76163ac6…
Published the Per Capita column as the producer states it (tonnes of carbon dioxide per person); it was not recomputed.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcp_fossil_national.py · code sha256 9cbf1047ea48dc4b… · inputs 20650c19b394… b41c76163ac6…
Left out international aviation and international shipping: they have no population, and the file's per-person cell for them is 0 or empty.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcp_fossil_national.py · code sha256 9cbf1047ea48dc4b… · inputs 20650c19b394… b41c76163ac6…
Published as null, with the reason, the per-person values the file gives for NLD 1900–1949 (Total divided by Per Capita implies fewer than 20,000 people): a thousand times the values of the neighbouring years.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcp_fossil_national.py · code sha256 9cbf1047ea48dc4b… · inputs 20650c19b394… b41c76163ac6…
Cells left empty in the file are not published and are never read as zero.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/gcp_fossil_national.py · code sha256 9cbf1047ea48dc4b… · inputs 20650c19b394… b41c76163ac6…

What it covers

Geography: Countries and territories, three historical entities and the world
Land use, land-use change and forestry: excluded
Basis: Carbon dioxide only, from fossil fuels, cement production (process emissions), gas flaring and other carbonates, before the cement carbonation sink is subtracted (gross). National values exclude international aviation and shipping, which are separate entities; the world value includes them. Territorial (production-based) accounting. Per person values are the producer's own; the world value counts international aviation and shipping in its emissions.
Unit: tonnes of carbon dioxide per person per year (t CO₂/person)