Worst CO2 Polluters

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Global Worst CO2 Emissions from fossil fuel use by Country

The 2014 "Dirty Globe" Award

Rank	Country	tons/km²
1	China, Macao SAR	80,859.03
2	Gibraltar	68,775.05
3	Singapore	66,452.93
4	China, Hong Kong SAR	45,214.66
5	Bahrain	26,826.43
6	EU28	20,692.38
7	Bermuda	10,374.59
8	Qatar	7,660.17
9	China, Taiwan Province of	7,644.43
10	Malta	7,636.18
11	Trinidad and Tobago	6,629.79
12	Netherlands Antilles	6,470.72
13	Republic of Korea	6,087.87
14	Kuwait	5,530.78
15	Luxembourg	4,012.59
16	Netherlands	3,805.84
17	Japan	3,383.89
18	Maldives	3,263.35
19	Belgium	3,184.35
20	Barbados	3,096.82
21	Israel	2,935.63
22	Montserrat	2,917.44
23	United Arab Emirates	2,404.93
24	Germany	2,147.86
25	Martinique	2,072.35
26	Lebanon	2,019.52
27	United Kingdom	1,713.11
28	Aruba	1,704.93
29	Mauritius	1,603.15
30	Czech Republic	1,415.75
31	Grenada	1,369.46
32	Cayman Islands	1,329.85
33	Guadeloupe	1,318.42
34	Brunei Darussalam	1,285.71
35	Seychelles	1,185.23
36	Italy	1,120.50
37	China	1,098.34
38	Antigua and Barbuda	1,006.78
39	Switzerland	974.43
40	Poland	953.47
41	Denmark	932.77
42	Saint Lucia	893.26
43	Austria	832.24
44	Slovenia	822.42
45	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	799.85
46	Cyprus	782.30
47	Jamaica	754.97
48	India	712.34
49	Slovakia	707.34
50	Malaysia	689.66
51	Saint Kitts and Nevis	667.45
52	Serbia and Montenegro	578.90
53	Viet Nam	571.76
54	British Virgin Islands	559.79
55	United States of America	541.18
56	Greece	538.52
57	Thailand	530.05
58	Portugal	523.31
59	France	502.86
60	Democratic People s Republic of Korea	496.59
61	Dominican Republic	483.93
62	Spain	477.55
63	Hungary	470.11
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina	461.76
65	Bulgaria	461.25
66	Réunion	454.79
67	Turkey	450.75
68	Bangladesh	450.44
69	Estonia	428.77
70	Ukraine	412.70
71	Ireland	410.31
72	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	375.08
73	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	369.12
74	Azerbaijan	366.37
75	Croatia	365.36
76	El Salvador	340.30
77	Romania	328.40
78	Belarus	326.29
79	Philippines	323.13
80	South Africa	321.63
81	Iraq	318.68
82	Bahamas	304.94
83	Anguilla	289.02
84	Syrian Arab Republic	284.49
85	Cuba	275.22
86	Uzbekistan	273.11
87	Tonga	272.92
88	Sri Lanka	253.74
89	Jordan	249.56
90	Oman	240.03
91	Indonesia	237.84
92	Mexico	231.31
93	Saudi Arabia	230.18
94	Republic of Moldova	229.43
95	Egypt	222.79
96	Dominica	221.99
97	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	213.01
98	French Polynesia	190.27
99	Lithuania	189.12
100	Pakistan	179.28
101	Finland	161.91
102	Ecuador	151.74
103	Armenia	149.85
104	Costa Rica	149.54
105	Tunisia	148.39
106	Turkmenistan	143.65
107	Albania	140.25
108	Panama	137.92
109	New Zealand	127.25
110	Cook Islands	122.62
111	Latvia	116.60
112	Norway	115.21
113	Guatemala	109.78
114	Saint Helena	108.19
115	Chile	103.99
116	Russian Federation	103.31
117	Nigeria	101.62
118	American Samoa	100.50
119	New Caledonia	100.21
120	Sweden	98.41
121	Georgia	94.17
122	Kazakhstan	86.70
123	Morocco	85.32
124	Haiti	82.44
125	Honduras	75.09
126	Equatorial Guinea	74.73
127	Fiji	73.60
128	Argentina	71.59
129	Palau	70.62
130	World	69.93
131	Puerto Rico	65.10
132	Colombia	64.86
133	Djibouti	62.17
134	Sao Tome and Principe	59.96
135	Algeria	59.40
136	Ghana	58.99
137	Brazil	58.84
138	Canada	56.69
139	Comoros	55.90
140	Australia	53.22
141	Nauru	52.77
142	Kiribati	51.76
143	Rwanda	50.95
144	Benin	50.21
145	Samoa	47.35
146	Uruguay	46.05
147	Nepal	44.18
148	Burundi	44.10
149	Yemen	42.71
150	Belize	41.74
151	Senegal	41.63
152	Peru	40.43
153	Nicaragua	38.29
154	Swaziland	37.92
155	Togo	37.58
156	Bhutan	37.55
157	Iceland	37.45
158	Kyrgyzstan	36.86
159	Zimbabwe	33.62
160	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	31.33
161	Libya	28.76
162	Cambodia	26.29
163	Cabo Verde	25.82
164	Tajikistan	25.49
165	Gambia	24.26
166	Kenya	24.23
167	Timor-Leste	23.43
168	Guam	22.76
169	Côte d Ivoire	22.72
170	Tuvalu	21.54
171	Uganda	20.29
172	Angola	20.06
173	Cameroon	19.31
174	Gabon	18.78
175	Sierra Leone	17.68
176	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	16.20
177	Papua New Guinea	15.38
178	French Guiana	15.22
179	Malawi	14.98
180	Congo	14.82
181	Lao People s Democratic Republic	14.25
182	Paraguay	13.59
183	Myanmar	13.49
184	Suriname	13.19
185	Guyana	12.83
186	Afghanistan	12.06
187	Lesotho	10.64
188	Botswana	9.79
189	Solomon Islands	9.72
190	United Republic of Tanzania	9.59
191	Mongolia	9.38
192	Sudan (former)	9.15
193	Vanuatu	9.07
194	Guinea-Bissau	8.92
195	Burkina Faso	8.91
196	Guinea	8.29
197	Ethiopia	8.02
198	Liberia	7.25
199	Eritrea	5.71
200	Mozambique	5.47
201	Madagascar	5.14
202	Zambia	4.47
203	Namibia	4.31
204	United States Virgin Islands	4.30
205	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	3.43
206	Mauritania	2.40
207	Somalia	2.00
208	Turks and Caicos Islands	1.78
209	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1.70
210	Niger	1.62
211	Faroe Islands	1.38
212	Mali	1.32
213	Central African Republic	1.18
214	Chad	0.99
215	Western Sahara	0.78
216	Greenland	0.00

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production 2014

Emissions 2015 update with 2014 emissions of fossil fuel use and industrial process emissions (cement production, carbonate use of limestone and dolomite, non-energy use of fuels and other combustion)
Substance: CO2 country totals excluding short-cycle biomass burning (such as agricultural waste burning) and excluding large-scale biomass burning (forest fires, etc.)
Unit: ton CO2 per km² per year
Date: 25/11/2015
Sources: EDGARv4.3, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)/PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), release version 4.3. http://edgar.jrc.ec.europe.eu, 2015 forthcoming
The EDGARv4.3FT2014 emissions are calculated based on the energy balance statistics of IEA (2014) (Internet: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/energy/co2-emissions-from-fuel-combustion-2014_co2_fuel-2014-en)
BP (2013-2014) data of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2015 (Internet: http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-economics/statisticalreview-of-world-energy.html)

Chinese coal consumption data of the China Statistical Abstract, October 2015 (Internet: http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=C01).

References

1. Olivier, J.G.J., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Muntean, M. and Peters, J.A.H.W. (2015) Trends in global CO2 emissions: 2015 Report. PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague; European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES). JRC98184, PBL1803, Internet: http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/news_docs/jrc-2015-trends-in-global-co2-emissions-2015-report-98184.pdf, November 2015

2. Wikipedia - List of countries and area.

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