Dataset
Are consumption-based CO₂ per capita emissions above or below the global average?
owid.consumption-co2-per-capita-equity
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About
Annual consumption-based emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), measured in tonnes per person.
Cite as: Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Per capita consumption-based CO₂ emissions – Global Carbon Project” [dataset]. Global Carbon Project, “Global Carbon Budget v15”; Various sources, “Population” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1990–2024
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-11-13
- Units
- tonnes per person
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita-equity
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| consumption_emissions_per_capita | number | Per capita consumption-based CO₂ emissions (tonnes per person) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |