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English: Chart showing greenhouse gas emissions (including LULUCF) per capita, by country, for countries with the most total emissions, with the area of each column showing total emissions

Data source for June 2021 version(s): Historical GHG Emissions / Global Historical Emissions. ClimateWatchData.org. Climate Watch (2021). Archived from the originalon21 May 2021. Retrieved on 26 June 2021.

Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20210521225317/https://www.climatewatchdata.org/ghg-emissions?end_year=2018&start_year=1990

Source for country populations: List of the populations of the world's countries, dependencies, and territories. britannica.com. Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the originalon26 May 2021. Retrieved on 26 June 2021.

Archive thereof: https://web.archive.org/web/20210626134803/https://www.britannica.com/print/article/2156538
Chart was requested by User:Chidgk1 at the Graphics Lab Illustration Workshop
Uploader created chart manually, using Microsoft Excel to assemble the SVG code.

- - VERSION THREE (updating with data from 2020): started 2021-12-30

DATA FOR VERSION THREE is CARBON DIOXIDE ONLY, not all greenhouse gases.

Background: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/reccap/index.htm
Source data: http://www.globalcarbonatlas.org/en/CO2-emissions
Data from Global Carbon Atlas also presented in: Popovich, Nadja; Plumer, Brad (November 12, 2021). "Who Has The Most Historical Responsibility for Climate Change?". The New York Times. (archive)

Technical note: SVG code for charts like this can be automatically generated by the "Variable-width bar charts" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG.

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Date

26 June 2021

Source

Own work

Author

RCraig09

Other versions

20210703 Variwide chart of greenhouse gas emissions per capita by country (includes OTHER).svg
20210626 Ülkelere göre kişi başına düşen sera gazı emisyonlarının değişken tablosu TR.svg — Turkish language equivalent
Czech + English version

Data

Version 3 (2021-12-30): Published emissions data from Global Carbon Atlas, population from Britannica, and calculated tons per person:

Country TCO2 population T/pp
Saudi Arabia 626 36.8 17.0
Australia 392 25.9 15.1
USA 4,713 335.0 14.1
Canada 536 38.1 14.1
South Korea 598 51.7 11.6
Russia 1,577 143.0 11.0
Iran 745 85.0 8.8
Japan 1,031 125.0 8.2
Germany 644 83.2 7.7
China 10,668 1,417.0 7.5
South Africa 452 60.1 7.5
Turkey 393 84.0 4.7
Brazil 467 213.0 2.2
Indonesia 590 270.0 2.2
India 2,442 1,344.0 1.8

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:51, 16 October 2023	1,600 × 900 (3 KB)	RCraig09	Version 6: explain horizontal axis (country populations are shown by widths of rectangles)
	06:20, 16 August 2023	1,600 × 900 (3 KB)	RCraig09	Version 5: remove "tspan" designation from vertical axis label, to work around ongoing SVG text rendering problems
	03:53, 1 January 2022	1,600 × 900 (3 KB)	RCraig09	Version 4: Change main caption to limit to CO2 emissions (not all greenhouse gases) since it's 2020 data. + Minor formal changes.
	07:04, 30 December 2021	1,600 × 900 (3 KB)	RCraig09	Version 3: Update to include 2020 data. . . . . including more countries than Versions 1 and 2 so that India isn't left out
	06:10, 28 June 2021	1,600 × 900 (3 KB)	Chidgk1	corrected y-scale, changed "capita" to "person"
	21:11, 26 June 2021	1,600 × 900 (3 KB)	RCraig09	Uploaded own work with UploadWizard