CO₂ emissions per capita (excluding land use) in North America

31 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: tonnes CO₂ per person. World ranking →

First in the ranking
0.00 t
United States Virgin Islands
Median country
2.74 t
half above, half below
World
4.69 t
World Bank aggregate
Range
0.00 to 19.58
United States Virgin Islands - Trinidad and Tobago

How to read it

Across 31 countries in North America, the highest value is in Trinidad and Tobago (19.58 t) and the lowest in United States Virgin Islands (0.00 t).

The median country is at 2.74 t: half are above, half below.

Total annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF, standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values divided by the economy's population. This measure excludes GHG fluxes caused by Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), as these fluxes have larger uncertainties.

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Source: EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) Community GHG Database, Joint Research Centre (JRC) - European Commission, uri… · via World Bank WDI (EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5) · licence

CO₂ per capita over time

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Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1United States Virgin Islands0.00
2Haiti0.30
3Nicaragua0.83
4Belize0.93
5Guatemala1.11
6Honduras1.14
7Dominica1.27
8Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.31
9Grenada1.50
10El Salvador1.51
11Costa Rica1.63
12Saint Lucia1.71
13Cuba1.91
14British Virgin Islands2.33
15Barbados2.52
16Panama2.74
17Jamaica2.84
18Saint Kitts and Nevis2.88
19Dominican Republic2.99
20Bahamas3.64
21Mexico3.64
22Antigua and Barbuda3.80
23Bermuda4.14
24Puerto Rico4.82
25Turks and Caicos Islands4.92
26Cayman Islands5.00
27Aruba5.15
28Greenland10.45
29United States13.62
30Canada14.01
31Trinidad and Tobago19.58
World Bank, WDI · EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5 · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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