CO₂ emissions per capita, 2017

Per capita carbon dioxide emissions were derived by Our World in Data based on four datasets:

1. Long historical estimates of annual carbon dioxide emissions from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC)
2. Production and consumption-based estimates of CO2 emissions from the Global Carbon Project
3. Long-run population estimates by country, sourced from Gapminder & UN Population estimates
4. Long-run global population estimates from the HYDE Database

Per capita emissions (production-based) were calculated by diving total national CO₂ emissions per year by population estimates.

CO2 data has been converted from tonnes of carbon to tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) using a conversion factor of 3.664.

Sources: HYDE Database, available at: https://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/basicdrivingfactors/population/index-2.html

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019, Online Edition. Available at: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/

Population data based on our combined population series ( https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-by-country-gapminder+un ); this is based on Gapminder ( http://www.gapminder.org/ ) figures until 1949, and UN thereafter ( https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/ ).

CO2 Data from pre-1959 is sourced from the archived Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre (CDIAC). Reference: Tom Boden and Bob Andres (Oak Ridge National Laboratory); Gregg Marland (Appalachian State University). Available at: http://cdiac.ornl.gov/

Data from 1959 onwards (and consumption-based data) is sourced from the Global Carbon Project (2018).