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Transport

9.2 Gt CO₂e/yr · 13.8% of global tracked · ≈ 2 billion cars/yr

The worst emitters in transport — countries and companies, side-by-side, from Climate TRACE open data.

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 — each litre of fuel releases roughly its weight in CO₂.
What's it equivalent to? That's about 2 billion cars/yr a year.

Worst country in transport

About this sector

Transport accounts for 9.2 Gt CO₂e a year — about 13.8% of all tracked global emissions. 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 GtAnnual total50Countries ranked0Companies ranked

Top countries in this sector

1USA= 424M cars/yrTransport share2 Gt CO₂e 2China= 298M cars/yrTransport share1.4 Gt CO₂e 3Japan= 78.8M cars/yrTransport share362 Mt CO₂e 4Russia= 67.4M cars/yrTransport share310 Mt CO₂e 5Brazil= 64.6M cars/yrTransport share297 Mt CO₂e 6India= 58.3M cars/yrTransport share268 Mt CO₂e 7Mexico= 44.7M cars/yrTransport share206 Mt CO₂e 8Indonesia= 43.9M cars/yrTransport share202 Mt CO₂e 9Unknown= 39.7M cars/yrTransport share183 Mt CO₂e 10Canada= 39.6M cars/yrTransport share182 Mt CO₂e

Show all countries (50)

11Australia= 37.8M cars/yrTransport share174 Mt CO₂e 12France= 34.5M cars/yrTransport share159 Mt CO₂e 13Germany= 32.4M cars/yrTransport share149 Mt CO₂e 14Turkey= 30.7M cars/yrTransport share141 Mt CO₂e 15UK= 28.9M cars/yrTransport share133 Mt CO₂e 16Spain= 27.6M cars/yrTransport share127 Mt CO₂e 17South Korea= 24.7M cars/yrTransport share113 Mt CO₂e 18Italy= 24.2M cars/yrTransport share111 Mt CO₂e 19South Africa= 22.2M cars/yrTransport share102 Mt CO₂e 20Saudi Arabia= 21.7M cars/yrTransport share99.6 Mt CO₂e 21Argentina= 19.9M cars/yrTransport share91.6 Mt CO₂e 22Iran= 18.8M cars/yrTransport share86.7 Mt CO₂e 23Thailand= 17.3M cars/yrTransport share79.6 Mt CO₂e 24Nigeria= 15.7M cars/yrTransport share72.4 Mt CO₂e 25Egypt= 15.1M cars/yrTransport share69.4 Mt CO₂e 26UAE= 13.8M cars/yrTransport share63.5 Mt CO₂e 27Malaysia= 12.7M cars/yrTransport share58.6 Mt CO₂e 28Netherlands= 12.7M cars/yrTransport share58.6 Mt CO₂e 29Poland= 12.6M cars/yrTransport share58 Mt CO₂e 30Ukraine= 11.6M cars/yrTransport share53.4 Mt CO₂e 31Pakistan= 11.1M cars/yrTransport share51.2 Mt CO₂e 32Algeria= 9.5M cars/yrTransport share43.8 Mt CO₂e 33Taiwan= 9.3M cars/yrTransport share42.8 Mt CO₂e 34Viet Nam= 9M cars/yrTransport share41.4 Mt CO₂e 35Iraq= 8.6M cars/yrTransport share39.8 Mt CO₂e 36Kazakhstan= 7.4M cars/yrTransport share34.1 Mt CO₂e 37Uzbekistan= 7.1M cars/yrTransport share32.6 Mt CO₂e 38Colombia= 6.7M cars/yrTransport share30.7 Mt CO₂e 39Philippines= 6.5M cars/yrTransport share29.8 Mt CO₂e 40Venezuela= 6.3M cars/yrTransport share29.2 Mt CO₂e 41Qatar= 6.2M cars/yrTransport share28.3 Mt CO₂e 42Tanzania= 5.8M cars/yrTransport share26.8 Mt CO₂e 43Ethiopia= 5.8M cars/yrTransport share26.6 Mt CO₂e 44Sudan= 5.6M cars/yrTransport share26 Mt CO₂e 45Libya= 4.4M cars/yrTransport share20 Mt CO₂e 46Oman= 3.7M cars/yrTransport share17.1 Mt CO₂e 47Bangladesh= 3M cars/yrTransport share13.8 Mt CO₂e 48Kuwait= 2.6M cars/yrTransport share11.9 Mt CO₂e 49Turkmenistan= 2.3M cars/yrTransport share10.4 Mt CO₂e 50Mongolia= 1.7M cars/yrTransport share7.6 Mt CO₂e

Where this comes from

Climate TRACE · CC BY 4.0