CO₂ per person in Belgium

CO₂ per person in Belgium: 14.45 tonnes in 1970 and 7.31 tonnes in 2024, by EDGAR estimates.

Latest, 2024: 7.31 tonnes
Since 1970: −7.14 tonnes
Rank, 2024: 30 of 202; counting from the highest
World, 2024: 4.69 tonnes

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tonnes per person · EDGAR

Estimates, EDGARWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 15.1 tonnes in 1979, the lowest 7.28 tonnes in 2023.

Every year

tonnes per person · EDGAR

Year	Belgium	World
2024	7.31	4.69
2023	7.28	4.68
2022	7.68	4.67
2021	8.29	4.69
2020	7.97	4.48
2019	8.73	4.7
2018	8.79	4.74
2017	8.77	4.67
2016	8.94	4.65
2015	9.08	4.7
2014	8.72	4.78
2013	9.35	4.81
2012	9.28	4.77
2011	9.47	4.76
2010	10.55	4.67
2009	9.94	4.45
2008	10.67	4.56
2007	10.63	4.59
2006	11	4.48
2005	11.36	4.39
2004	11.7	4.28
2003	11.89	4.15
2002	11.47	4.02
2001	12.23	4.01
2000	12.18	4.01
1999	12.02	3.95
1998	12.48	3.98
1997	12.21	4.02
1996	12.53	4.01
1995	12.07	3.99
1994	12.06	3.94
1993	11.47	3.97
1992	11.71	4.02
1991	11.97	4.1
1990	11.62	4.15
1989	11.35	4.16
1988	11.28	4.16
1987	11.09	4.1
1986	11.09	4.04
1985	11.04	4.05
1984	11.29	4.07
1983	11	4.01
1982	11.99	4.05
1981	12.77	4.18
1980	13.98	4.33
1979	15.1	4.46
1978	14.17	4.42
1977	13.74	4.36
1976	14.02	4.31
1975	13.06	4.15
1974	14.86	4.23
1973	15.03	4.32
1972	14.52	4.16
1971	13.38	4.04
1970	14.45	4.15

Good to know

Carbon dioxide from energy, industry, farming and waste, divided by the population; land use and forests are left out.
Source: EDGAR (European Commission JRC) and the IEA, via the World Bank.
Ranks count the 202 countries with a value in 2024, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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