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RANKED BY 2024 MEASURED EMISSIONS

Top 100 polluting countries

The world's biggest polluting countries, ranked by measured 2024 emissions.

Territorial totals below come from Climate TRACE satellite and sensor measurement: every power plant, field, mine and factory inside each country's borders, not government self-reporting. China tops the table at 17.5 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e a year. Tap any row for the top emitting companies, largest sites and trend, or read how the ranking works.

1China= 3.8bn cars/yrCountry total17.5 Gt CO₂e2USA= 1.5bn cars/yrCountry total6.9 Gt CO₂e3India= 936M cars/yrCountry total4.3 Gt CO₂e4Russia= 653M cars/yrCountry total3 Gt CO₂e5Indonesia= 351M cars/yrCountry total1.6 Gt CO₂e6Brazil= 295M cars/yrCountry total1.4 Gt CO₂e7Japan= 284M cars/yrCountry total1.3 Gt CO₂e8Iran= 267M cars/yrCountry total1.2 Gt CO₂e9Saudi Arabia= 227M cars/yrCountry total1 Gt CO₂e10Canada= 204M cars/yrCountry total936 Mt CO₂e11Mexico= 176M cars/yrCountry total812 Mt CO₂e12Australia= 176M cars/yrCountry total810 Mt CO₂e13Germany= 165M cars/yrCountry total760 Mt CO₂e14South Korea= 157M cars/yrCountry total723 Mt CO₂e15Turkey= 134M cars/yrCountry total616 Mt CO₂e16South Africa= 132M cars/yrCountry total609 Mt CO₂e17Pakistan= 131M cars/yrCountry total601 Mt CO₂e18Viet Nam= 114M cars/yrCountry total523 Mt CO₂e19Iraq= 109M cars/yrCountry total501 Mt CO₂e20Thailand= 109M cars/yrCountry total500 Mt CO₂e21Argentina= 99.3M cars/yrCountry total457 Mt CO₂e22UK= 98.2M cars/yrCountry total452 Mt CO₂e23UAE= 95.1M cars/yrCountry total437 Mt CO₂e24France= 95.1M cars/yrCountry total437 Mt CO₂e25Nigeria= 95M cars/yrCountry total437 Mt CO₂e26Malaysia= 94.6M cars/yrCountry total435 Mt CO₂e27Poland= 85M cars/yrCountry total391 Mt CO₂e28Egypt= 84.9M cars/yrCountry total390 Mt CO₂e29Kazakhstan= 84.2M cars/yrCountry total388 Mt CO₂e30Italy= 80.3M cars/yrCountry total369 Mt CO₂e31Spain= 71.5M cars/yrCountry total329 Mt CO₂e32Algeria= 71.2M cars/yrCountry total328 Mt CO₂e33Bangladesh= 69.5M cars/yrCountry total320 Mt CO₂e34Taiwan= 68.6M cars/yrCountry total316 Mt CO₂e35Ukraine= 59.3M cars/yrCountry total273 Mt CO₂e36Venezuela= 57.5M cars/yrCountry total264 Mt CO₂e37Ethiopia= 57.4M cars/yrCountry total264 Mt CO₂e38Colombia= 55.8M cars/yrCountry total257 Mt CO₂e39Philippines= 55.4M cars/yrCountry total255 Mt CO₂e40Qatar= 54.7M cars/yrCountry total252 Mt CO₂e41Uzbekistan= 53.4M cars/yrCountry total246 Mt CO₂e42Turkmenistan= 51.2M cars/yrCountry total235 Mt CO₂e43Kuwait= 45.7M cars/yrCountry total210 Mt CO₂e44Netherlands= 44.4M cars/yrCountry total204 Mt CO₂e45Oman= 39.7M cars/yrCountry total183 Mt CO₂e46Unknown= 39.7M cars/yrCountry total183 Mt CO₂e47Tanzania= 33.3M cars/yrCountry total153 Mt CO₂e48Sudan= 31M cars/yrCountry total142 Mt CO₂e49Mongolia= 29.8M cars/yrCountry total137 Mt CO₂e50Libya= 29.6M cars/yrCountry total136 Mt CO₂e51Chad= 29.6M cars/yrCountry total136 Mt CO₂e52Belarus= 28.5M cars/yrCountry total131 Mt CO₂e53Chile= 28M cars/yrCountry total129 Mt CO₂e54Peru= 28M cars/yrCountry total129 Mt CO₂e55Belgium= 27.6M cars/yrCountry total127 Mt CO₂e56Norway= 26.5M cars/yrCountry total122 Mt CO₂e57Morocco= 25.8M cars/yrCountry total119 Mt CO₂e58Myanmar= 25.7M cars/yrCountry total118 Mt CO₂e59Kenya= 25.2M cars/yrCountry total116 Mt CO₂e60Singapore= 25.1M cars/yrCountry total116 Mt CO₂e61Romania= 24.9M cars/yrCountry total115 Mt CO₂e62North Korea= 23.4M cars/yrCountry total107 Mt CO₂e63Czechia= 21.6M cars/yrCountry total99.5 Mt CO₂e64Greece= 20.6M cars/yrCountry total94.6 Mt CO₂e65Angola= 20.5M cars/yrCountry total94.1 Mt CO₂e66Israel= 20.1M cars/yrCountry total92.3 Mt CO₂e67Azerbaijan= 19.8M cars/yrCountry total91.2 Mt CO₂e68Ecuador= 19.7M cars/yrCountry total90.6 Mt CO₂e69New Zealand= 19M cars/yrCountry total87.5 Mt CO₂e70Portugal= 18.5M cars/yrCountry total84.9 Mt CO₂e71Sweden= 18M cars/yrCountry total82.7 Mt CO₂e72Bolivia= 17.9M cars/yrCountry total82.2 Mt CO₂e73Austria= 17M cars/yrCountry total78.2 Mt CO₂e74Syria= 16.2M cars/yrCountry total74.7 Mt CO₂e75Bahrain= 16.2M cars/yrCountry total74.7 Mt CO₂e76Mali= 16.2M cars/yrCountry total74.4 Mt CO₂e77Finland= 16.1M cars/yrCountry total74.2 Mt CO₂e78Ireland= 15.7M cars/yrCountry total72.3 Mt CO₂e79Hungary= 15.4M cars/yrCountry total70.9 Mt CO₂e80Uganda= 15.2M cars/yrCountry total70.1 Mt CO₂e81DR Congo= 14.6M cars/yrCountry total67.2 Mt CO₂e82Niger= 14.5M cars/yrCountry total66.5 Mt CO₂e83Serbia= 13.6M cars/yrCountry total62.4 Mt CO₂e84Hong Kong= 13.5M cars/yrCountry total62.2 Mt CO₂e85Cameroon= 13.2M cars/yrCountry total60.6 Mt CO₂e86Ghana= 12.8M cars/yrCountry total58.9 Mt CO₂e87Denmark= 12.3M cars/yrCountry total56.8 Mt CO₂e88Tunisia= 11.9M cars/yrCountry total54.9 Mt CO₂e89Zambia= 11.9M cars/yrCountry total54.9 Mt CO₂e90South Sudan= 11.8M cars/yrCountry total54.2 Mt CO₂e91Dominican Republic= 11.3M cars/yrCountry total51.9 Mt CO₂e92Bulgaria= 11.1M cars/yrCountry total51.2 Mt CO₂e93Cambodia= 10.8M cars/yrCountry total49.7 Mt CO₂e94Guinea= 10.5M cars/yrCountry total48.4 Mt CO₂e95Yemen= 10.4M cars/yrCountry total48 Mt CO₂e96Nepal= 10.3M cars/yrCountry total47.6 Mt CO₂e97Afghanistan= 10.2M cars/yrCountry total47.1 Mt CO₂e98Cuba= 10.1M cars/yrCountry total46.7 Mt CO₂e99Mozambique= 10.1M cars/yrCountry total46.5 Mt CO₂e100Trinidad and Tobago= 10M cars/yrCountry total45.8 Mt CO₂e

Reference year 2024 · data from Climate TRACE (CC BY 4.0). See companies ranked the same way, the methodology, or the interactive league table.