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Ranking
A nation’s Carbon Footprint includes all Greenhouse Gas emissions required to satisfy the consumption by households and of public services and investment, no matter whether these emissions happen inside a nation’s border or outside.
It hence gives a picture of a nation’s climate responsibility independent of the location of production activities that serve to satisfy a nation’s demand.
The following figure gives an overview of the overall footprint per capita in the world (annual emission in tonnes pr. capita). Below this a ranking of each country.
The following table compares the CF of different countries for the year 2001.
| Country |
Footprint per capita
[ton CO2 equ./person] |
Country |
Footprint per capita
[ton CO2 equ./person] |
| United States |
29 |
Uruguay |
6,8 |
| Australia |
21 |
Latvia |
6,7 |
| Canada |
20 |
Argentina |
6,5 |
| Switzerland |
18 |
Bulgaria |
6,1 |
| Finland |
18 |
South Africa |
6,0 |
| Netherlands |
17 |
Lithuania |
5,9 |
| Belgium |
17 |
Mexico |
5,6 |
| Ireland |
16 |
Romania |
5,2 |
| Cyprus |
16 |
Botswana |
5,1 |
| United Kingdom |
15 |
Chile |
4,9 |
| Denmark |
15 |
Turkey |
4,6 |
| Germany |
15 |
Malaysia |
4,2 |
| Norway |
15 |
Brasil |
4,1 |
| Austria |
14 |
Colombia |
3,4 |
| Japan |
14 |
Thailand |
3,2 |
| Greece |
14 |
China |
3,1 |
| France |
13 |
Tunisia |
3,0 |
| Malta |
13 |
Peru |
2,6 |
| Estonia |
12 |
Central America |
2,6 |
| Slovenia |
12 |
Albania |
2,5 |
| Italy |
12 |
Zambia |
2,1 |
| New Zealand |
11 |
Zimbabwe |
2,0 |
| Taiwan |
11 |
Indonesia |
1,9 |
| Spain |
11 |
Morocco |
1,9 |
| Czech Republic |
11 |
Philippines |
1,9 |
| Portugal |
11 |
India |
1,8 |
| Sweden |
11 |
Vietnam |
1,7 |
| Russian Federation |
10 |
Madagascar |
1,5 |
| Hungary |
9,5 |
Sri Lanka |
1,4 |
| Korea |
9,2 |
Tanzania |
1,2 |
| Poland |
8,7 |
Uganda |
1,1 |
| Venezuela |
8,1 |
Bangladesh |
1,1 |
| Slovakia |
8,0 |
Mozambique |
1,1 |
| Croatia |
6,9 |
Malawi |
0,7 |
(Note that the city states Luxemburg, Hong Kong and Singapore and aggregate regions for which no original data was available are excluded from the table because of high uncertainty about emissions.)
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