Carbon intensity of GDP (kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP) by country

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF divided by the GDP in 2021 PPP $.

Countries reporting
191
Highest
4.48 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP
Palau
Lowest
0 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP
Tuvalu
Median
0.1249 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP
Years covered
35
1990–2024
Data points
8,228

What the numbers show

Carbon intensity of GDP (kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP) is currently reported for 191 countries. The highest value is 4.48 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP in Palau; the lowest is 0 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP in Tuvalu.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.1249 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP, and the mean is 0.1777 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP.

Over the past decade 63 countries rose and 126 fell. The largest increase was in Laos (up 277.9%), and the largest decrease in Guyana (down 71.6%).

Carbon intensity of GDP: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Palau 4.48 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 16.2% falling
2 Libya 0.6885 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 10.5% rising
3 Trinidad and Tobago 0.6127 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 13.0% falling
4 Turkmenistan 0.5881 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 29.8% falling
5 Iran 0.5178 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 1.2% rising
6 Oman 0.5079 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 7.4% rising
7 Kuwait 0.5073 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 21.0% falling
8 South Africa 0.5057 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 15.4% falling
9 Mongolia 0.4659 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 1.4% falling
10 Qatar 0.4252 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 5.7% falling
11 Iraq 0.4074 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 45.7% falling
12 Bahrain 0.4047 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 12.0% falling
13 China 0.3907 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 31.2% falling
14 Laos 0.39 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 277.9% volatile
15 Uzbekistan 0.3715 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 27.1% falling
16 Kazakhstan 0.3494 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 17.2% falling
17 Russia 0.3282 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 1.5% falling
18 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.3134 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 27.7% volatile
19 Syria 0.303 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2022 up 8.8% falling
20 Vietnam 0.2963 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 32.9% rising
21 Saudi Arabia 0.2925 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 16.8% rising
22 United Arab Emirates 0.2619 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 21.0% flat
23 Algeria 0.2568 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 2.1% flat
24 Brunei 0.256 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 9.6% rising
25 Jamaica 0.2508 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 4.1% falling
26 Seychelles 0.2471 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 38.1% flat
27 Malaysia 0.244 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 20.1% falling
28 Canada 0.2435 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 17.2% falling
29 Australia 0.2338 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 23.2% falling
30 Sudan 0.2329 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 105.4% rising
31 India 0.2308 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 20.1% falling
32 Tonga 0.227 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 12.0% rising
33 Vanuatu 0.2267 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 27.2% rising
34 Congo 0.217 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 87.4% rising
35 Suriname 0.2117 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 13.5% rising
36 Samoa 0.2087 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 8.9% rising
37 Moldova 0.2084 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 13.8% falling
38 Kyrgyzstan 0.2063 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 32.4% falling
39 South Korea 0.2063 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 27.3% falling
40 Tunisia 0.2052 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 1.8% falling
41 Ukraine 0.2045 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 43.7% falling
42 Belarus 0.2038 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 20.1% falling
43 Bolivia 0.2022 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 21.6% rising
44 Jordan 0.1996 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 24.7% falling
45 Indonesia 0.198 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 6.6% falling
46 Morocco 0.1977 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 8.3% falling
47 Mozambique 0.1946 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 25.6% rising
48 Tajikistan 0.194 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 0.9% falling
49 Ecuador 0.19 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 1.4% falling
50 Estonia 0.1884 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 61.1% volatile
51 Lebanon 0.181 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 30.0% falling
52 Thailand 0.181 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 14.5% falling
53 Kiribati 0.1809 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 18.1% rising
54 United States 0.18 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 30.9% falling
55 Azerbaijan 0.1725 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 1.9% volatile
56 Honduras 0.1723 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 10.3% falling
57 Senegal 0.1714 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 0.8% rising
58 Equatorial Guinea 0.1701 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 32.3% volatile
59 Poland 0.1672 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 36.3% falling
60 Mexico 0.1656 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 13.1% falling
61 North Macedonia 0.1653 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 30.0% falling
62 Japan 0.1652 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 27.8% falling
63 Solomon Islands 0.1631 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 27.0% falling
64 Lesotho 0.1587 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 61.5% rising
65 Cambodia 0.1572 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 61.8% rising
66 Bulgaria 0.1551 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 45.6% falling
67 Maldives 0.1548 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 45.2% rising
68 Botswana 0.1512 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 21.7% falling
69 Argentina 0.1498 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 4.3% falling
70 Mauritania 0.1495 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 25.2% flat
71 Egypt 0.149 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 18.1% falling
72 Turkey 0.1488 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 19.6% falling
73 Czechia 0.1486 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 41.4% falling
74 Zimbabwe 0.1483 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 15.0% falling
75 Pakistan 0.1475 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 15.5% falling
76 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.1474 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 9.7% rising
77 Zambia 0.1464 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 51.6% flat
78 Georgia 0.1463 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 20.0% volatile
79 Philippines 0.1448 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 6.1% falling
80 Comoros 0.1448 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 127.0% volatile
81 Greenland 0.1448 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2023 down 6.2% volatile
82 Afghanistan 0.1441 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 79.1% volatile
83 Cyprus 0.1427 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 35.0% falling
84 Slovakia 0.1368 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 30.5% falling
85 Malawi 0.1355 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 27.6% falling
86 Greece 0.1347 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 35.5% falling
87 Cape Verde 0.1311 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 35.0% rising
88 Chile 0.1301 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 18.8% falling
89 Antigua and Barbuda 0.1296 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 5.2% rising
90 El Salvador 0.1293 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 10.5% flat
91 Bhutan 0.1289 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 1.7% rising
92 Peru 0.1289 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 3.8% falling
93 Slovenia 0.1288 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 29.2% falling
94 East Timor 0.1283 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 9.4% rising
95 Mauritius 0.127 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 12.8% flat
96 Benin 0.1249 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 24.6% rising
97 Iceland 0.1249 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 29.0% falling
98 New Zealand 0.1245 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 29.3% falling
99 Dominican Republic 0.1236 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 0.2% falling
100 Armenia 0.123 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 18.5% volatile
101 Israel 0.1217 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 38.1% falling
102 Papua New Guinea 0.1204 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 25.9% falling
103 Fiji 0.1193 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 21.5% falling
104 Brazil 0.118 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 17.1% flat
105 Namibia 0.1172 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 1.3% falling
106 Barbados 0.1171 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 3.1% rising
107 Belgium 0.1154 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 24.6% falling
108 Sao Tome and Principe 0.1138 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 11.2% rising
109 Aruba 0.1133 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 1.7% rising
110 Croatia 0.1128 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 23.7% falling
111 Djibouti 0.1114 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 40.5% falling
112 Germany 0.1108 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 31.8% falling
113 Hungary 0.1094 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 27.4% falling
114 Myanmar 0.1091 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 56.0% falling
115 Puerto Rico 0.109 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 41.1% falling
116 Nicaragua 0.1083 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 10.2% falling
117 Gabon 0.1082 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 31.7% falling
118 Burkina Faso 0.1079 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 48.8% rising
119 Haiti 0.1072 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 17.3% rising
120 Nepal 0.1062 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 44.7% rising
121 Mali 0.1038 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 67.6% volatile
122 Bahamas 0.1003 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 10.4% falling
123 Ghana 0.0993 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 5.4% rising
124 Austria 0.0991 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 21.8% falling
125 Finland 0.099 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 42.3% falling
126 Colombia 0.0973 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 12.1% falling
127 Latvia 0.097 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 25.3% volatile
128 Italy 0.0953 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 21.6% falling
129 Lithuania 0.0946 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 28.5% volatile
130 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0941 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 29.9% rising
131 Liberia 0.0939 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 36.6% falling
132 Netherlands 0.0937 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 39.4% falling
133 Togo 0.0933 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 6.7% rising
134 Spain 0.093 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 30.0% falling
135 Romania 0.0919 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 34.8% volatile
136 Madagascar 0.0883 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 13.1% rising
137 Guinea 0.0878 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 20.4% rising
138 Guatemala 0.0875 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 0.3% rising
139 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0873 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 0.5% rising
140 Tanzania 0.0865 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 13.7% rising
141 Grenada 0.0858 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 27.2% rising
142 Eswatini 0.0848 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 11.0% falling
143 Angola 0.0847 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 12.7% falling
144 Bangladesh 0.0843 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 11.9% rising
145 Albania 0.0825 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 40.1% falling
146 Luxembourg 0.0822 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 39.4% falling
147 Uruguay 0.0799 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 15.2% falling
148 United Kingdom 0.079 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 41.0% falling
149 Portugal 0.0787 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 39.7% falling
150 Sri Lanka 0.0772 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 15.8% flat
151 Norway 0.0757 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 28.2% falling
152 Panama 0.0752 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 21.3% falling
153 Belize 0.0739 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 54.7% flat
154 France 0.0731 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 25.4% falling
155 Singapore 0.0725 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 20.5% falling
156 Cameroon 0.0719 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 18.0% falling
157 Nigeria 0.0709 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 4.6% falling
158 Paraguay 0.0708 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 2.6% rising
159 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0701 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 14.8% rising
160 Hong Kong 0.0695 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 34.7% falling
161 Saint Lucia 0.0693 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 42.5% rising
162 Dominica 0.0679 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 25.2% rising
163 Niger 0.0662 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 15.0% rising
164 Burundi 0.0658 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 78.6% rising
165 Kenya 0.0656 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 12.3% rising
166 Guyana 0.0646 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 71.6% falling
167 Cayman Islands 0.0617 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 16.8% rising
168 Denmark 0.0602 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 42.5% falling
169 Costa Rica 0.0598 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 26.6% falling
170 Chad 0.0586 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 67.1% volatile
171 Gambia 0.0583 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 35.7% rising
172 Uganda 0.0573 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 6.2% rising
173 Guinea-Bissau 0.0572 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 37.1% falling
174 Sweden 0.0571 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 26.1% falling
175 Central African Republic 0.057 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 63.2% rising
176 Sierra Leone 0.0546 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 12.5% falling
177 Malta 0.0509 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 59.8% volatile
178 Ireland 0.0508 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 57.1% falling
179 Ethiopia 0.0507 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 24.7% falling
180 Rwanda 0.0488 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 25.7% falling
181 Switzerland 0.0438 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 31.5% falling
182 Bermuda 0.0396 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 13.8% flat
183 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.0355 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 4.2% falling
184 Somalia 0.0323 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 29.8% falling
185 Macao 0.0226 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 up 9.5% falling
186 Faroe Islands 0.0005 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 17.4% falling
187 Micronesia (country) 0.0005 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 12.0% falling
188 Marshall Islands 0.0004 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 down 17.7% falling
189 United States Virgin Islands 0 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2022 up 2.5% rising
190 Nauru 0 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 flat
190 Tuvalu 0 kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP 2024 flat

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Carbon intensity of GDP (kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP)
Unit
kg CO2e per 2021 PPP $ of GDP
Source
EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
238 places, 8,228 data points, 1990–2024
Last refreshed

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF divided by the GDP in 2021 PPP $.