Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions

							  Climate and atmosphere 2005


                                  Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions
                                      Total            Per capita
                               Million       Per    Metric Per
                               metric        cent   tonnes cent
                               tonnes      change per        change Total GHG emissions
                               2000         since person since        (million metric tonnes
                                            1990 2000        1990     CO2 equivalent in 2000
World (100%)                     23895.7       12.7     3.9       2.3                   33309
Asia (excluding Middle            7837.0       35.1     2.2     17.9                    11471
East) (32.8%)
Armenia                             3.7       44.5      1.2    36.7                               7
Azerbaijan                         29.5       39.1      3.6    46.3                              42
Bangladesh                         29.9     105.6       0.2    63.2                             122
Bhutan                              0.4     203.1       0.2   150.7                               2
Cambodia                            0.5       18.8      0.0    10.9                              69
China (14.5%)                   3473.6        39.3      2.7    26.2                            4942
Georgia                             6.2       35.2      1.2    32.7                              12
India (4.2%)                    1008.0        63.7      1.0    36.3                            1837
Indonesia (1.2%)                 286.0        96.8      1.4    69.4                             495
Japan (5.1%)                    1224.7        12.3      9.6     9.2                            1333
Kazakhstan (0.5%)                123.7        51.7      7.9    48.1                             159
North Korea (0.7%)               168.3        19.2      7.6    27.6                             209
South Korea (2%)                 470.0        85.4     10.0    69.7                             525
Kyrgyzstan                          4.8       55.7      1.0    60.4                               7
Laos                                0.4       78.8      0.1    39.3                               7
Malaysia (0.5%)                  123.6      120.3       5.4    70.9                             169
Mongolia                            7.3       27.1      2.9    35.3                              28
Myanmar (Burma)                     8.9     108.1       0.2    78.1                              82
Nepal                               3.2     235.0       0.1   163.5                              32
Pakistan (0.4%)                  106.0        62.7      0.7    26.6                             285
Philippines                        75.3       77.5      1.0    43.4                             133
Singapore                          61.1     103.4      15.2    52.8                              64
Sri Lanka                          11.2     167.6       0.6   142.3                              28
Tajikistan                          4.5       67.5      0.7    71.6                               8
Thailand (0.7%)                  171.7        93.5      2.8    72.7                             261
Turkmenistan                       34.6       18.0      7.4    35.2                              62
Uzbekistan (0.5%)                121.0        16.7      4.9    31.4                             181
Vietnam                            47.5     147.6       0.6   108.9                             130
   Source: World Resources Institute, International Energy Agency, United Nations
   Framework Convention on Climate Change

  Editor’s note: Please note that the following data table is the latest available (in which
  greenhouse gas emissions of most countries can be directly compared even though
  they have become outdated). That’s why the UNFCCC continues to use this as
  reference.
Since 2006, China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest emitter of
greenhouse gases at 6,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, according to the
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. In that year, the US produced 5,800
million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent of GHGs.