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Carbon dioxide emissions are those stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement. They include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels and gas flaring.

Rank	Country	Value
CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita) - Emissions - Environment - World Development Indicators (2006)
1	Qatar	46.13
2	Kuwait	33.29
3	United Arab Emirates	32.95
4	Bahrain	28.62
5	Trinidad and Tobago	25.38
6	Luxembourg	23.92
7	Netherlands Antilles	22.79
8	Aruba	22.48
9	United States	19.27
10	Australia	17.96
11	Canada	16.67
12	Saudi Arabia	16.10
13	Brunei Darussalam	15.65
14	Oman	15.49
15	High income: nonOECD	14.32
16	Faroe Islands	14.05
17	Estonia	13.03
18	Singapore	12.76
19	High income	12.73
20	Finland	12.65
21	Kazakhstan	12.63
22	High income: OECD	12.58
23	New Caledonia	12.32
24	Czech Republic	11.18
25	Russia	10.97
26	Netherlands	10.30
27	Ireland	10.27
28	Belgium	10.16
29	Japan	10.12
30	Israel	9.98
31	Greenland	9.94
32	Denmark	9.91
33	South Korea	9.83
34	North Korea	9.83
35	Cayman Islands	9.78
36	Germany	9.77
37	United Kingdom	9.37
38	Cyprus	9.21
39	Libya	9.17
40	Turkmenistan	8.97
41	Bermuda	8.84
42	Seychelles	8.79
43	South Africa	8.74
44	Austria	8.67
45	Greece	8.64
46	Norway	8.62
47	Euro area	8.38
48	Poland	8.34
49	Italy	8.04
50	Spain	7.98
51	Slovenia	7.55
52	Europe & Central Asia	7.34
53	Iceland	7.29
54	New Zealand	7.28
55	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.25
56	Malaysia	7.19
57	Belarus	7.07
58	Equatorial Guinea	6.96
59	Slovakia	6.94
60	Ukraine	6.82
61	Iran	6.66
62	Bahamas	6.48
63	Venezuela	6.34
64	Malta	6.27
65	France	6.24
66	Bulgaria	6.24
67	Palau	5.85
68	Hungary	5.72
69	Hong Kong	5.69
70	Portugal	5.66
71	Sweden	5.60
72	Switzerland	5.58
73	Macedonia	5.33
74	Croatia	5.33
75	Barbados	5.27
76	Upper middle income	5.21
77	Antigua and Barbuda	5.02
78	Suriname	4.82
79	China	4.65
80	Romania	4.56
81	Jamaica	4.56
82	Macau	4.47
83	Argentina	4.43
84	Uzbekistan	4.36
85	Lithuania	4.18
86	Mexico	4.18
87	Azerbaijan	4.13
88	Thailand	4.09
89	Algeria	3.98
90	East Asia & Pacific	3.78
91	Jordan	3.74
92	Turkey	3.74
93	Lebanon	3.71
94	Mongolia	3.66
95	Chile	3.65
96	Middle East & North Africa	3.54
97	Syria	3.49
98	Middle income	3.26
99	Latvia	3.26
100	Iraq	3.17
101	French Polynesia	3.17
102	Mauritius	3.07
103	Maldives	2.93
104	St. Kitts and Nevis	2.80
105	Low & middle income	2.79
106	Lower middle income	2.76
107	Belize	2.71
108	Cuba	2.64
109	Latin America & Caribbean	2.64
110	Botswana	2.56
111	Ecuador	2.37
112	Grenada	2.35
113	St. Lucia	2.28
114	Tunisia	2.28
115	Egypt	2.12
116	Moldova	2.11
117	Dominican Republic	2.10
118	Uruguay	2.07
119	Guyana	1.97
120	Panama	1.95
121	Fiji	1.93
122	Brazil	1.87
123	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	1.82
124	Costa Rica	1.79
125	Dominica	1.62
126	Marshall Islands	1.61
127	Indonesia	1.50
128	Morocco	1.47
129	Gabon	1.47
130	Colombia	1.45
131	Armenia	1.42
132	Albania	1.38
133	Namibia	1.38
134	Peru	1.37
135	India	1.36
136	Tonga	1.29
137	Vietnam	1.26
138	Georgia	1.25
139	Bolivia	1.22
140	South Asia	1.14
141	Kyrgyzstan	1.07
142	El Salvador	1.06
143	Honduras	1.02
144	Yemen	0.98
145	Tajikistan	0.96
146	Pakistan	0.90
147	Guatemala	0.90
148	Swaziland	0.89
149	Zimbabwe	0.89
150	Samoa	0.88
151	Sub-Saharan Africa	0.82
152	West Bank and Gaza	0.81
153	Nicaragua	0.78
154	Philippines	0.78
155	Papua New Guinea	0.74
156	Nigeria	0.67
157	Paraguay	0.66
158	Sao Tome and Principe	0.66
159	Cape Verde	0.64
160	Angola	0.62
161	Sri Lanka	0.60
162	Djibouti	0.59
163	Bhutan	0.57
164	Mauritania	0.54
165	Low income	0.51
166	Republic of the Congo	0.42
167	Ghana	0.41
168	Vanuatu	0.41
169	Benin	0.38
170	Senegal	0.37
171	Solomon Islands	0.37
172	Ivory Coast	0.35
173	Kenya	0.33
174	Kiribati	0.31
175	Cambodia	0.29
176	Sudan	0.27
177	Bangladesh	0.27
178	Laos	0.24
179	Liberia	0.23
180	Gambia	0.21
181	Burma	0.21
182	Zambia	0.21
183	Cameroon	0.20
184	Least developed countries: UN classification	0.20
185	Togo	0.20
186	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	0.19
187	Sierra Leone	0.19
188	Haiti	0.19
189	Guinea-Bissau	0.18
190	Timor-Leste	0.17
191	Madagascar	0.16
192	Guinea	0.14
193	Comoros	0.14
194	Tanzania	0.13
195	Eritrea	0.12
196	Nepal	0.12
197	Mozambique	0.10
198	Uganda	0.09
199	Rwanda	0.09
200	Ethiopia	0.08
201	Malawi	0.07
202	Niger	0.07
203	Central African Republic	0.06
204	Burkina Faso	0.06
205	Mali	0.05
206	Chad	0.04
207	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.04
208	Afghanistan	0.03
209	Burundi	0.03
210	Somalia	0.02

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