List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per capita

This is a list of countries ranked by greenhouse-gas emissions per capita in 2000. It is based on data for carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, perfluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon and sulfur hexafluoride emissions compiled by the World Resources Institute [ cite web|url=http://cait.wri.org/
title=WRI Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (registration required to access data)] (WRI) from a variety of sources, including CDIAC and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Bunker-fuel emissions are not included.

Two sets of per capita emissions are given, one with an estimate of the effects of land-use change (for example, cutting down forests) and one without. The former is based on regional estimates in Houghton (2003) [ cite web|url=http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1034/j.1600-0889.2003.01450.x
title=Houghton, R.A., 2003. "Revised estimates of the annual net flux of carbon to the atmosphere from changes in land use and land management 1850-2000".] . Difficulties with determining rates of deforestation and the magnitude of carbon stocks held by the remaining forests and with distributing regional carbon fluxes among individual countries mean that the land-use change components have a large margin of error, perhaps as large as +/-150% in some cases. They are included here because, although difficult to quantify accurately at a country level, land-use change is a significant contributor to global warming. The WRI estimates that it accounted for almost a fifth of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions in 2000.

List of countries by emissions

¹Compatible land-use change data not available.

²Compatible PFC, HFC and SF₆ data not available.

³Includes Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands. The WRI is ambiguous about which components are included for these additional territories. The non-land-use CO₂ data includes all three; CH₄, N₂O, PFC, HFC and SF₆ data are included for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands but not for Guam; land-use change may or may not be included for any of the three.

⁴Not including the Netherlands Antilles.

⁵Not including Greenland and the Faeroe Islands.

⁶Including the Canary Islands.

⁷Including San Marino and the Vatican City.

⁸Including Monaco; not including Overseas Departments or French Polynesia.

⁹Including the Azores and Madeira.

¹⁰Including Liechtenstein.

¹¹Average annual forest cover change as percentage of national total 1990-2000: Belize -2.3%, Uruguay +5.0%. Source: FAO. [ cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/y1997e/y1997e1r.htm|title=FAO Global Forest Assessment Report 2000]

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