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Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre by country

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
201
Highest
0.0781 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Singapore
Lowest
0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Northern Mariana Islands
Median
0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Years covered
54
1970–2023
Data points
12,804

What the numbers show

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre is currently reported for 201 countries. The highest value is 0.0781 Mt CO2e per square kilometre in Singapore; the lowest is 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre in Northern Mariana Islands.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 126 countries rose and 69 fell. The largest increase was in Laos (up 552.7%), and the largest decrease in Yemen (down 63.1%).

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Singapore 0.0781 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
2 Gibraltar 0.0629 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.9% volatile
3 Macao 0.0509 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.0% rising
4 Bahrain 0.0484 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 15.9% volatile
5 Hong Kong 0.0325 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 26.1% rising
6 Qatar 0.0112 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 27.8% volatile
7 Kuwait 0.0062 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.3% rising
8 South Korea 0.006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.2% volatile
9 Maldives 0.006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.4% volatile
10 Malta 0.0056 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 25.0% rising
11 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0053 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 27.8% volatile
12 Bermuda 0.0048 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.5% rising
13 Netherlands 0.0037 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 27.4% rising
14 Palau 0.003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.4% falling
15 Aruba 0.003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.1% volatile
16 Belgium 0.0028 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 18.3% falling
17 Israel 0.0028 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.4% rising
18 Japan 0.0027 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 24.3% rising
19 United Arab Emirates 0.0027 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% volatile
20 Luxembourg 0.0027 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 32.8% falling
21 Mauritius 0.0022 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.1% volatile
22 Brunei 0.0018 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.6% rising
23 Seychelles 0.0018 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.6% volatile
24 Germany 0.0017 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 28.0% falling
25 Puerto Rico 0.0016 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.8% falling
26 Barbados 0.0016 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 5.5% rising
27 Cayman Islands 0.0015 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 65.9% volatile
28 China 0.0014 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% volatile
29 United Kingdom 0.0013 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 35.2% falling
30 Vietnam 0.0012 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 139.2% volatile
31 Czechia 0.0011 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 21.8% falling
32 Lebanon 0.0011 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 53.2% volatile
33 Italy 0.001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.9% flat
34 India 0.001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.4% volatile
35 Poland 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% falling
36 Bangladesh 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 65.3% volatile
37 Malaysia 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.1% volatile
38 Switzerland 0.0009 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 24.5% falling
39 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 32.4% rising
40 Cyprus 0.0008 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.8% rising
41 Jamaica 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.9% rising
42 Austria 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.0% rising
43 Dominican Republic 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 53.0% volatile
44 Denmark 0.0007 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 35.0% falling
45 Slovakia 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 14.4% falling
46 Slovenia 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 18.6% falling
47 British Virgin Islands 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.6% volatile
48 Turkey 0.0006 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.7% volatile
49 North Korea 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 73.2% falling
50 Philippines 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 66.6% volatile
51 Thailand 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% volatile
52 Iraq 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 61.3% volatile
53 France 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 21.1% falling
54 Azerbaijan 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.7% rising
55 United States 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.6% rising
56 Iran 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 33.7% volatile
57 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 43.4% volatile
58 Grenada 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 38.6% volatile
59 Saint Lucia 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 78.2% volatile
60 Ireland 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.6% rising
61 Hungary 0.0005 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.8% falling
62 El Salvador 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 39.2% rising
63 Spain 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.7% rising
64 Portugal 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 22.3% rising
65 Indonesia 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 61.4% volatile
66 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.3% rising
67 Greece 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 30.6% rising
68 South Africa 0.0004 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 10.1% rising
69 Sri Lanka 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 47.4% volatile
70 Bulgaria 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.8% falling
71 Croatia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.5% flat
72 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 54.5% volatile
73 North Macedonia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.8% falling
74 Oman 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.5% volatile
75 Romania 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.7% falling
76 Uzbekistan 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.0% flat
77 Saudi Arabia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.1% volatile
78 Egypt 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% volatile
79 Pakistan 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.9% volatile
80 Jordan 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% volatile
81 Estonia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 50.6% falling
82 French Polynesia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% rising
83 New Caledonia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% volatile
84 Armenia 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.8% rising
85 Belarus 0.0003 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.5% falling
86 Moldova 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.4% falling
87 Mexico 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% rising
88 Comoros 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 151.0% volatile
89 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 229.7% volatile
90 Tonga 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.5% volatile
91 Ukraine 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 61.4% falling
92 Lithuania 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 2.8% falling
93 Turkmenistan 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 45.1% rising
94 Tunisia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.6% rising
95 Georgia 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 48.2% rising
96 Cuba 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 30.7% falling
97 Ecuador 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.7% volatile
98 Guatemala 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 48.7% volatile
99 Panama 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 24.4% volatile
100 Syria 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.5% volatile
101 Equatorial Guinea 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.7% volatile
102 Cape Verde 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.0% volatile
103 Costa Rica 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 2.0% volatile
104 Morocco 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.8% volatile
105 Albania 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% falling
106 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0002 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% volatile
107 Bahamas 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.2% falling
108 Nigeria 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.8% rising
109 Haiti 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 13.5% volatile
110 New Zealand 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.1% rising
111 Samoa 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% volatile
112 Russia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 10.4% flat
113 Norway 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.0% rising
114 Laos 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 552.7% volatile
115 Latvia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 11.3% falling
116 Venezuela 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 50.0% rising
117 Dominica 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 35.9% volatile
118 Finland 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 38.3% flat
119 Nepal 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 145.1% volatile
120 Cambodia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 232.1% volatile
121 Honduras 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 17.1% volatile
122 Chile 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 9.8% rising
123 Ghana 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 50.8% volatile
124 Kazakhstan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.5% rising
125 Kiribati 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.5% volatile
126 Rwanda 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 142.6% volatile
127 Sweden 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 16.6% falling
128 Colombia 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 11.0% rising
129 Algeria 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 30.8% rising
130 Fiji 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
131 Senegal 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 74.9% volatile
132 Argentina 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% rising
133 Tajikistan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 161.5% volatile
134 Canada 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.6% rising
135 Eswatini 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% rising
136 Benin 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 38.7% volatile
137 Brazil 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 8.3% rising
138 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 82.9% volatile
139 Kyrgyzstan 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 5.6% rising
140 Peru 0.0001 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 29.3% rising
141 Malawi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% volatile
142 Australia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.1% rising
143 Myanmar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 119.8% volatile
144 Gambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.2% volatile
145 Uruguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 6.9% rising
146 Togo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 31.1% volatile
147 Nicaragua 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 19.4% rising
148 East Timor 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% volatile
149 Bhutan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 40.9% volatile
150 Uganda 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 84.0% volatile
151 Djibouti 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 0.5% flat
152 Burundi 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 110.0% volatile
153 Kenya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 50.0% volatile
154 Libya 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% rising
155 Lesotho 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 70.6% volatile
156 Zimbabwe 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% rising
157 Iceland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 13.7% rising
158 Tanzania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 86.1% volatile
159 Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 44.6% volatile
160 Burkina Faso 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 106.0% volatile
161 Bolivia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 34.9% volatile
162 Vanuatu 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 79.9% rising
163 Angola 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 4.2% rising
164 Cameroon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 26.3% volatile
165 Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 121.4% volatile
166 Yemen 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 63.1% volatile
167 Gabon 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 15.7% rising
168 Paraguay 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 37.7% volatile
169 Sierra Leone 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 25.6% rising
170 Afghanistan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 38.2% volatile
171 Guyana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 76.4% rising
172 Mongolia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 41.5% rising
173 Ethiopia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 82.1% volatile
174 Belize 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 82.6% volatile
175 Suriname 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% volatile
176 Zambia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 139.8% volatile
177 Mozambique 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 109.5% volatile
178 Papua New Guinea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 20.1% rising
179 Botswana 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% volatile
180 Guinea-Bissau 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 0.1% volatile
181 Sudan 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 23.2% rising
182 Solomon Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 23.7% rising
183 Liberia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 down 7.5% falling
184 Madagascar 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 50.6% volatile
185 Eritrea 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 28.6% falling
186 Mali 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 161.8% volatile
187 Mauritania 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 108.5% volatile
188 Namibia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 16.4% volatile
189 Democratic Republic of Congo 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 84.4% rising
190 Niger 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 55.3% volatile
191 Chad 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 121.2% volatile
192 Faroe Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 7.0% rising
193 Greenland 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.8% volatile
194 Somalia 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 8.5% rising
195 United States Virgin Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
196 Guam 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged rising
196 Marshall Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
198 Central African Republic 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 up 123.5% rising
199 American Samoa 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged volatile
200 Micronesia (country) 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat
201 Northern Mariana Islands 0 Mt CO2e per square kilometre 2023 unchanged flat

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e) Γ· Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per square kilometre
Unit
Mt CO2e per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
250 places, 12,804 data points, 1970–2023
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (total) excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.