Dataset
Annual greenhouse gas emissions by world region
owid.ghg-emissions-by-world-region
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About
Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.
Cite as: Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Annual greenhouse gas emissions including land use” [dataset]. Jones et al., “National contributions to climate change 2025.1” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1850–2024
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-12-04
- Units
- tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-emissions-by-world-region
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 | |
| annual_emissions_ghg_total_co2eq | number | Annual greenhouse gas emissions including land use (tonnes of CO₂ equivalents) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |