List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions

This is a list of countries ranked by total greenhouse-gas emissions in 2005. It is based on data for carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide

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, methane

Methane

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, nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide

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, perfluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon, and sulfur hexafluoride

Sulfur hexafluoride

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emissions compiled by the World Resources Institute

World Resources Institute

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. It includes bunker fuel emissions and land-use change

Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

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List of countries by 2005 emissions

Rank	Country	CO₂e emissions Carbon dioxide equivalent Carbon dioxide equivalent and Equivalent carbon dioxide are two related but distinct measures for describing how much global warming a given type and amount of greenhouse gas may cause, using the functionally equivalent amount or concentration of carbon dioxide as the reference.- Global warming... in megatonnes	Percentage of global total
1	China	7,217.70	16.36%
2	United States of America	6,948.20	15.74%
3	European Union (27)	5,332.90	12.08%
4	Brazil	2,856.20	6.47%
5	Indonesia	2,045.30	4.63%
6	Russian Federation	2,020.70	4.58%
7	India	1,876.60	4.25%
8	Japan	1,397.40	3.17%
9	Germany	1,002.70	2.27%
10	Canada	808.2	1.83%
11	Mexico	694	1.57%
12	United Kingdom	685	1.55%
13	Korea (South)	609.2	1.38%
14	Italy	581.5	1.32%
15	France	573.5	1.30%
16	Australia	569.9	1.29%
17	Iran	560.3	1.27%
18	Ukraine	495	1.12%
19	Spain	470.6	1.07%
20	Nigeria	457.9	1.04%
21	Venezuela	454.5	1.03%
22	South Africa	433.5	0.98%
23	Turkey	431.1	0.98%
24	Saudi Arabia	388.9	0.88%
25	Poland	374.9	0.85%
26	Thailand	366.5	0.83%
27	Malaysia [2]	364.6	0.83%
28	Argentina	351.7	0.80%
29	Taiwan*	299.2	0.68%
30	Netherlands	288.2	0.65%
31	Congo, Dem. Republic	269.7	0.61%
32	Myanmar	261.9	0.59%
33	Pakistan	243.1	0.55%
34	Egypt	229.5	0.52%
35	Philippines	211.7	0.48%
36	Kazakhstan	206.2	0.47%
37	United Arab Emirates	205.4	0.47%
38	Bolivia	201.9	0.46%
39	Uzbekistan	180.9	0.41%
40	Colombia	179.7	0.41%
41	Vietnam	178.5	0.40%
42	Belgium	175.2	0.40%
43	Zambia [2]	157.6	0.36%
44	Peru	147.4	0.33%
45	Bangladesh	143.2	0.32%
46	Czech Republic	142.9	0.32%
47	Algeria	139.6	0.32%
48	Greece	138.8	0.31%
49	Singapore	136.7	0.31%
50	Angola	134.2	0.30%
51	Romania	132	0.30%
52	Ecuador	129	0.29%
53	Sudan	123.2	0.28%
54	Iraq*	120.9	0.27%
55	Korea (North) [1,3]	118.4	0.27%
56	Tanzania [2]	110.2	0.25%
57	Cameroon [2]	107	0.24%
58	Cambodia	106.8	0.24%
59	Austria	94.3	0.21%
60	Kuwait	91.6	0.21%
61	Turkmenistan [1,3]	91.4	0.21%
62	Guatemala [2]	89.9	0.20%
63	Chile	89.8	0.20%
64	Portugal	86.4	0.20%
65	Israel	84.3	0.19%
66	Hungary	84.1	0.19%
67	Belarus	83.5	0.19%
68	New Zealand	82.5	0.19%
69	Sweden	74.5	0.17%
70	Ethiopia	74	0.17%
71	Ireland	72.1	0.16%
72	Finland	70.8	0.16%
73	Syria	70.7	0.16%
74	Denmark	68.3	0.15%
75	Bulgaria	67.5	0.15%
76	Zimbabwe [2]	65.7	0.15%
77	Serbia & Montenegro	63.1	0.14%
78	Honduras [2]	63	0.14%
79	Libya	62.3	0.14%
80	Morocco	62	0.14%
81	Central African Republic	61.3	0.14%
82	Qatar	60.4	0.14%
83	Switzerland	57.4	0.13%
84	Norway	54.7	0.12%
85	Papua New Guinea [2,3]	52.6	0.12%
86	Slovakia	50.2	0.11%
87	Oman	49.6	0.11%
88	Azerbaijan	48.4	0.11%
89	Uruguay	43.1	0.10%
90	Cuba	41.6	0.09%
91	Kenya	41.4	0.09%
92	Nepal	40.6	0.09%
93	Trinidad & Tobago	37.1	0.08%
94	Tunisia	34.2	0.08%
95	Cote d'Ivoire	31.5	0.07%
96	Croatia	30.7	0.07%
97	Madagascar	30.7	0.07%
98	Uganda [1,3]	30.6	0.07%
99	Mongolia	30.3	0.07%
100	Yemen	30.1	0.07%
101	Paraguay	28.3	0.06%
102	Dominican Republic	27.1	0.06%
103	Sri Lanka	26.1	0.06%
104	Mozambique	24.5	0.06%
105	Jordan	23.8	0.05%
106	Bahrain	23	0.05%
107	Senegal	22.7	0.05%
108	Mali	22.3	0.05%
109	Ghana	21.7	0.05%
110	Chad	20.9	0.05%
111	Lithuania	20.3	0.05%
112	Slovenia	20.1	0.05%
113	Lebanon	20.1	0.05%
114	Bosnia & Herzegovina	19.8	0.04%
115	Estonia	19.8	0.04%
116	Guinea	19.2	0.04%
117	Burkina Faso	17.9	0.04%
118	Laos [1,3]	17.3	0.04%
119	Congo	16.7	0.04%
120	Gabon	14.7	0.03%
121	Afghanistan	14	0.03%
122	Luxembourg	13.7	0.03%
123	Nicaragua	13.6	0.03%
124	Moldova	12.6	0.03%
125	Jamaica	12.5	0.03%
126	Brunei*	12.5	0.03%
127	Latvia	11.9	0.03%
128	Botswana	11.7	0.03%
129	Namibia	11.6	0.03%
130	Macedonia, FYR	11.2	0.03%
131	El Salvador	11.1	0.03%
132	Benin	11	0.02%
133	Costa Rica	10.8	0.02%
134	Panama	10.5	0.02%
135	Cyprus	10.5	0.02%
136	Tajikistan	9.8	0.02%
137	Kyrgyzstan	9.7	0.02%
138	Albania	9.3	0.02%
139	Equatorial Guinea	9.3	0.02%
140	Georgia	9.1	0.02%
141	Mauritania	8.9	0.02%
142	Armenia	7.5	0.02%
143	Niger	7.3	0.02%
144	Haiti	7.1	0.02%
145	Malawi	6.9	0.02%
146	Togo	6.2	0.01%
147	Guyana	5.3	0.01%
148	Eritrea	4.2	0.01%
149	Solomon Islands	4.2	0.01%
150	Iceland	3.9	0.01%
151	Rwanda	3.8	0.01%
152	Mauritius	3.8	0.01%
153	Sierra Leone	3.6	0.01%
154	Suriname	3.6	0.01%
155	Malta	3.1	0.01%
156	Fiji	2.7	0.01%
157	Swaziland	2.7	0.01%
158	Burundi	2.6	0.01%
159	Bahamas	2.3	0.01%
160	Guinea-Bissau	2	0.00%
161	Liberia	1.9	0.00%
162	Bhutan	1.7	0.00%
163	Lesotho	1.6	0.00%
164	Barbados	1.5	0.00%
165	Gambia	1.3	0.00%
166	Djibouti	1.2	0.00%
167	Belize	1.1	0.00%
168	Maldives	0.7	0.00%
169	Seychelles	0.7	0.00%
170	Cape Verde	0.5	0.00%
171	Antigua & Barbuda	0.5	0.00%
172	Vanuatu	0.5	0.00%
173	Saint Lucia	0.4	0.00%
174	Samoa	0.3	0.00%
175	Comoros	0.3	0.00%
176	Grenada	0.3	0.00%
177	Saint Vincent & Grenadines	0.2	0.00%
178	Tonga	0.2	0.00%
179	Saint Kitts & Nevis	0.2	0.00%
180	Dominica	0.2	0.00%
181	Nauru	0.1	0.00%
182	Sao Tome & Principe	0.1	0.00%
183	Palau	0.1	0.00%
184	Cook Islands	0.1	0.00%
185	Kiribati	0	0.00%
186	Niue	0	0.00%

List of countries by 2005 emissions

See also