Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Emissions Inequality Dashboard
Each global income percentile's share of world income, population and consumption-based carbon dioxide emissions, for every year from 1990 to 2023, with the richest 1% split into finer slices down to the top 0.001%. Built from national consumption emissions spread across each country's income distribution for 117 countries. Covers carbon dioxide only, and the split depends on SEI's assumed link between income and emissions (its elasticity). Also global and covered-country totals of emissions, population and GDP for each year.
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- Stockholm Environment Institute, Emissions Inequality Dashboard (Ghosh, Nazareth, Wang, Kartha and Kemp-Benedict, 2021), https://emissions-inequality.org, accessed {date_accessed}, CC BY 4.0.
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- Cite as
- Emily Ghosh, Anisha Nazareth, Guozhong Wang, Sivan Kartha, Eric Kemp-Benedict (2021). Emissions Inequality Dashboard. Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). https://emissions-inequality.org
Files
Income, emission and population shares for each global income percentile and year (Year, PercentileLabel, PercentileValue, IncomeShare, EmissionShare, PopulationShare, Elasticity), all years.
https://www.sei-eqtrans-dev.net/api/globalHistoricalDataByYear/search.phpGlobal emissions, GDP and population for each year, all years.
https://www.sei-eqtrans-dev.net/api/globalDataByYear/search.phpSum of national emissions, population and GDP over the countries in the database, for each year.
https://www.sei-eqtrans-dev.net/api/countryTotals/search.phpSwitzerland's national series used by the dashboard, one record a year 1990-2023 (CountryName, CountryISOCode, Year, EmissionsPerCap, GDPPerCap, Population, NatEmisions, NatGDP).
https://www.sei-eqtrans-dev.net/api/historicalDataByCountry/search.php?country=CHE&startyear=1990&endyear=2023The United States' national series used by the dashboard, one record a year 1990-2023 (same fields as national-history-che).
https://www.sei-eqtrans-dev.net/api/historicalDataByCountry/search.php?country=USA&startyear=1990&endyear=2023The United Kingdom's national series used by the dashboard, one record a year 1990-2023 (same fields as national-history-che).
https://www.sei-eqtrans-dev.net/api/historicalDataByCountry/search.php?country=GBR&startyear=1990&endyear=2023
Status
- Programme
- The historical series ends in 2023 (2023 methodology update), but its 2023 national values are territorial carbon dioxide while 1990-2022 are consumption-based (Switzerland 122.0 Mt in 2022, 32.7 Mt in 2023; the historicalDataByCountry responses for Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom are kept as snapshots), so the site publishes 1990-2022 only. The API has no versions or DOI, and it is served from a host named sei-eqtrans-dev.net, which the dashboard's own API page links to. The address could change without notice, so each response is kept as a dated snapshot. Figures differ from those printed in Oxfam's releases because of method updates. Not a US federal product.
- Updates
- Irregular, roughly yearly alongside SEI and Oxfam publications
- Last check
- Fetched (2026-10-05T14:50:53Z)