Total greenhouse gas emissions by country, 2024
Total greenhouse gas emissions reported in the national inventories submitted to the UN climate convention, excluding LULUCF and memo items, in million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
31 places ranked for 2024. Highest: Germany (649.8 Mt CO2e). Lowest: Malta (2.2 Mt CO2e). The median is 47.5 Mt CO2e.
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Source: Eurostat.
In short
- Among the 31 countries with a value for 2024, the highest is Germany (649.8 Mt CO2e) and the lowest Malta (2.2 Mt CO2e).
- Half of the countries are above 47.5 Mt CO2e and half below.
- From 2023 to 2024 the value rose in 8 countries and fell in 23.
- The figure for the European Union was 3,017.2 Mt CO2e in 2024, against 3,574.5 Mt CO2e in 2019 (−15.6%).
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 649.8 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 2 | Türkiye | 584.5 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 3 | France | 367.0 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 4 | Italy | 363.5 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 5 | Poland | 341.0 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 6 | Spain | 267.7 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 7 | Netherlands | 140.7 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 8 | Belgium | 98.0 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 9 | Czechia | 96.6 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 10 | Romania | 95.6 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 11 | Greece | 73.3 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 12 | Austria | 66.6 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 13 | Ireland | 53.9 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 14 | Hungary | 53.7 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 15 | Portugal | 51.5 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 16 | Sweden | 47.5 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 17 | Norway | 44.6 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 43.4 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 19 | Switzerland | 40.1 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 20 | Finland | 39.3 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 21 | Denmark | 36.8 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 22 | Slovakia | 33.9 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 23 | Croatia | 25.3 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 24 | Lithuania | 18.3 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 25 | Slovenia | 15.5 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 26 | Estonia | 10.2 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 27 | Latvia | 9.6 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 28 | Cyprus | 8.8 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 29 | Luxembourg | 7.5 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 30 | Iceland | 4.8 Mt CO2e | 2024 | |
| 31 | Malta | 2.2 Mt CO2e | 2024 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2024, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2024 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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