SECTOR PROFILE · 2024
Transport
≈ 2 billion cars/yr9.2 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalent CO₂e/yr13.8% of global tracked
The worst emitters in transport: countries and companies, side-by-side.
- What is it?
- Cars, trucks, ships, planes and trains burning fuel to move people and goods.
- Why does it emit?
- Almost all transport still runs on petroleum, and each litre of fuel releases roughly its weight in CO₂.
- What’s it equivalent to?
- That’s about 2 billion cars driven for a year.
About this sector
The league tables below rank both the countries where this sector is largest and the companies whose biggest attributed sector is transport. Totals come from Climate TRACE’s open dataset and refresh whenever the pipeline runs.
9.2 Gt = gigatonne: one billion tonnes of CO₂-equivalentAnnual total50Countries ranked0Companies ranked
Top countries in this sector
1USA= 424M cars/yr2 Gt CO₂eNEW2China= 298M cars/yr1.4 Gt CO₂eNEW3Japan= 78.8M cars/yr362 Mt CO₂eNEW4Russia= 67.4M cars/yr310 Mt CO₂eNEW5Brazil= 64.6M cars/yr297 Mt CO₂eNEW6India= 58.3M cars/yr268 Mt CO₂eNEW7Mexico= 44.7M cars/yr206 Mt CO₂eNEW8Indonesia= 43.9M cars/yr202 Mt CO₂eNEW9Unknown= 39.7M cars/yr183 Mt CO₂eNEW10Canada= 39.6M cars/yr182 Mt CO₂eNEW
Show all countries (50)
11Australia= 37.8M cars/yr174 Mt CO₂eNEW12France= 34.5M cars/yr159 Mt CO₂eNEW13Germany= 32.4M cars/yr149 Mt CO₂eNEW14Turkey= 30.7M cars/yr141 Mt CO₂eNEW15UK= 28.9M cars/yr133 Mt CO₂eNEW16Spain= 27.6M cars/yr127 Mt CO₂eNEW17South Korea= 24.7M cars/yr113 Mt CO₂eNEW18Italy= 24.2M cars/yr111 Mt CO₂eNEW19South Africa= 22.2M cars/yr102 Mt CO₂eNEW20Saudi Arabia= 21.7M cars/yr99.6 Mt CO₂eNEW21Argentina= 19.9M cars/yr91.6 Mt CO₂eNEW22Iran= 18.8M cars/yr86.7 Mt CO₂eNEW23Thailand= 17.3M cars/yr79.6 Mt CO₂eNEW24Nigeria= 15.7M cars/yr72.4 Mt CO₂eNEW25Egypt= 15.1M cars/yr69.4 Mt CO₂eNEW26UAE= 13.8M cars/yr63.5 Mt CO₂eNEW27Malaysia= 12.7M cars/yr58.6 Mt CO₂eNEW28Netherlands= 12.7M cars/yr58.6 Mt CO₂eNEW29Poland= 12.6M cars/yr58 Mt CO₂eNEW30Ukraine= 11.6M cars/yr53.4 Mt CO₂eNEW31Pakistan= 11.1M cars/yr51.2 Mt CO₂eNEW32Algeria= 9.5M cars/yr43.8 Mt CO₂eNEW33Taiwan= 9.3M cars/yr42.8 Mt CO₂eNEW34Viet Nam= 9M cars/yr41.4 Mt CO₂eNEW35Iraq= 8.6M cars/yr39.8 Mt CO₂eNEW36Kazakhstan= 7.4M cars/yr34.1 Mt CO₂eNEW37Uzbekistan= 7.1M cars/yr32.6 Mt CO₂eNEW38Colombia= 6.7M cars/yr30.7 Mt CO₂eNEW39Philippines= 6.5M cars/yr29.8 Mt CO₂eNEW40Venezuela= 6.3M cars/yr29.2 Mt CO₂eNEW41Qatar= 6.2M cars/yr28.3 Mt CO₂eNEW42Tanzania= 5.8M cars/yr26.8 Mt CO₂eNEW43Ethiopia= 5.8M cars/yr26.6 Mt CO₂eNEW44Sudan= 5.6M cars/yr26 Mt CO₂eNEW45Libya= 4.4M cars/yr20 Mt CO₂eNEW46Oman= 3.7M cars/yr17.1 Mt CO₂eNEW47Bangladesh= 3M cars/yr13.8 Mt CO₂eNEW48Kuwait= 2.6M cars/yr11.9 Mt CO₂eNEW49Turkmenistan= 2.3M cars/yr10.4 Mt CO₂eNEW50Mongolia= 1.7M cars/yr7.6 Mt CO₂eNEW
Where this comes from
Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0