CO₂ per person in Kuwait

CO₂ per person in Kuwait: 49.24 tonnes in 1970 and 23.67 tonnes in 2024, by EDGAR estimates.

Latest, 2024: 23.67 tonnes
Since 1970: −25.57 tonnes
Rank, 2024: 4 of 202; counting from the highest
World, 2024: 4.69 tonnes

Watch it change on the map

tonnes per person · EDGAR

Estimates, EDGARWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 49.24 tonnes in 1970, the lowest 16.49 tonnes in 1992.

Every year

tonnes per person · EDGAR

Year	Kuwait	World
2024	23.67	4.69
2023	22.7	4.68
2022	22.36	4.67
2021	22.91	4.69
2020	21.12	4.48
2019	21.8	4.7
2018	22.92	4.74
2017	23.46	4.67
2016	24.57	4.65
2015	24.93	4.7
2014	25.19	4.78
2013	26.76	4.81
2012	27.56	4.77
2011	29.33	4.76
2010	29.5	4.67
2009	30.52	4.45
2008	31.54	4.56
2007	31.19	4.59
2006	33.8	4.48
2005	34.53	4.39
2004	31.98	4.28
2003	30.77	4.15
2002	29.89	4.02
2001	29.32	4.01
2000	28.66	4.01
1999	26.26	3.95
1998	25.12	3.98
1997	23.35	4.02
1996	22.91	4.01
1995	23.97	3.99
1994	24.47	3.94
1993	20.5	3.97
1992	16.49	4.02
1991	28.49	4.1
1990	19.24	4.15
1989	29.89	4.16
1988	26.58	4.16
1987	22.99	4.1
1986	22.28	4.04
1985	21.56	4.05
1984	20.28	4.07
1983	20.78	4.01
1982	20.24	4.05
1981	19.93	4.18
1980	22.12	4.33
1979	24.94	4.46
1978	23.15	4.42
1977	21.47	4.36
1976	23.25	4.31
1975	24.23	4.15
1974	30.01	4.23
1973	38.95	4.32
1972	46.13	4.16
1971	48.78	4.04
1970	49.24	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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