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CO2 emissions per person

Observed

Carbon dioxide emissions excluding land use, land-use change and forestry, per person, in tonnes.

Ingestedfrom World BankfreshJSON export
Current value, World
4.69tonnes CO2 per person
period 2024
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2024
Unit
tonnes CO2 per person
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
1-year change+0.0162contextual+0.35%2023 to 2024from 4.68 to 4.69 tonnes CO2 per person
10-year trend-0.18% per yearcontextual-1.75%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -0.0835 tonnes CO2 per person, from 4.78 to 4.69 tonnes CO2 per person
Historical series

CO2 emissions per person, World

Observed
3.844.24.44.64.851970198019902000201020202024TONNES CO2 PER PERSON4.69
55 observations, 1970 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (55 rows)
CO2 emissions per person, World: 55 observations from 1970 to 2024, values from 3.94 to 4.81 tonnes CO2 per person. Latest 4.69 tonnes CO2 per person in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (tonnes CO2 per person)Source revisionIngested at
20244.69382026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20234.67762026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20224.66792026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20214.68482026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20204.47452026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20194.70122026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20184.73492026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20174.67222026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20164.652026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20154.69832026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20144.77732026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20134.80942026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20124.77422026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20114.76262026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20104.67132026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20094.45012026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20084.56162026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20074.58832026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20064.4782026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20054.38852026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20044.28332026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20034.15312026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20024.0152026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20014.00922026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
20004.00962026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19993.94822026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19983.9792026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19974.01592026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19964.00562026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19953.99052026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19943.94372026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19933.96882026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19924.01462026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19914.10342026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19904.14862026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19894.16062026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19884.16332026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19874.09582026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19864.03832026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19854.04792026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19844.07122026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19834.01352026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19824.05222026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19814.17712026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19804.33032026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19794.46342026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19784.42192026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19774.35862026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19764.3062026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19754.14462026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19744.23282026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19734.32332026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19724.16152026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19714.04042026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
19704.14492026-07-132026-09-07 05:31 UTC
250 geographies have observations for this metric
World Bank, World Development Indicators, series EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5
Definition

What this measures

Carbon dioxide emissions excluding LULUCF (land use, land-use change and forestry) per capita, in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per person. Emissions are from fossil fuel combustion, industrial processes and other sources as compiled in the EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) database and published by the World Bank using AR5 global warming potentials. Direction is contextual: lower emissions per person are better for climate, but the number also tracks energy availability, so it is not scored on its own.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
world, regions, countries
Slug
co2-per-person
Environment & Regeneration

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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Series ID
EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-13(source revision label as published by the provider)
Fallback source
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Series ID
EN.ATM.CO2E.PC
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-13(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 05:31 UTC
Parser version
world-bank-v2/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
The World Bank replaced the older EN.ATM.CO2E.PC series (CDIAC/IEA based) with the EDGAR-based EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5 series. The two are not identical; ingestion records which series supplied the values.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 500 tonnes CO2 per person.
55 periods with values for this geography, 1970 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (tonnes CO2 per person)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-134.69382026-09-07 05:31 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.