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This is a list of sovereign states and territories by carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity. The data presented below corresponds to emissions in 2008. The data was collected by the CDIAC
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center is an organization within the United States Department of Energy that has the primary responsibility for providing the US government and research community with global warming data and analysis as it pertains to energy issues...

 for the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

. The data only considers carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and cement manufacture, but not emissions from land use such as deforestation
Deforestation
Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use....

. The top 10 countries in the world emit 67.07% of the world total. Other powerful, more potent greenhouse gases are not included in this data, including methane
Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is the simplest alkane, the principal component of natural gas, and probably the most abundant organic compound on earth. The relative abundance of methane makes it an attractive fuel...

.

Some dependencies and territories whose independence has not been generally recognized are also included as they are in the source data. Certain entities are mentioned here for purposes of comparison. These are indicated in italics and are not counted in the ordering of sovereign states. (See also: carbon cycle
Carbon cycle
The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth...

) On 6 October 2010, the International Energy Agency
International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis...

 released its own data set (calculated using slightly different methods than CDIAC) for 2008 emissions that listed about 140 countries.

List of countries by 2008 emissions

Rank Country Annual CO2 emissions
(in thousands of metric tonnes)		 Percentage of global total
World 29,888,121 100%
1 7,031,916 23.33%
2 5,461,014 18.11%
- (27) 4,177,817.86 14.04%
3 1,742,698 5.78%
4 1,708,653 5.67%
5 1,208,163 4.01%
6 786,660 2.61%
7 544,091 1.80%
8 538,404 1.79%
9 522,856 1.73%
10 509,170 1.69%
11 475,834 1.58%
12 445,119 1.48%
13 435,878 1.45%
14 433,557 1.44%
15 406,029 1.35%
16 399,219 1.32%
17 393,220 1.30%
18 376,986 1.25%
19 329,286 1.09%
20 323,532 1.07%
21 316,066 1.05%
22 285,733 0.95%
23 283,980 0.94%
24 258,599 0.86%
25 236,954 0.79%
26 210,321 0.70%
27 208,267 0.69%
28 192,378 0.64%
29 173,750 0.58%
30 169,533 0.56%
31 163,178 0.54%
32 155,066 0.51%
33 127,384 0.42%
34 124,905 0.41%
35 116,996 0.39%
36 111,304 0.37%
37 104,880 0.35%
38 102,936 0.34%
39 97,814 0.32%
40 95,756 0.32%
41 94,660 0.31%
42 83,157 0.28%
43 78,371 0.26%
44 76,743 0.25%
45 73,109 0.24%
46 71,598 0.24%
47 68,478 0.23%
48 67,726 0.22%
49 67,700 0.22%
50 62,816 0.21%
51 58,331 0.19%
52 56,512 0.19%
53 56,310 0.19%
54 54,638 0.18%
55 50,539 0.17%
56 49,920 0.17%
57 49,934 0.17%
58 49,772 0.17%
59 49,050 0.16%
60 47,906 0.16%
61 47,840 0.16%
62 47,139 0.16%
63 46,527 0.15%
64 46,025 0.15%
65 45,749 0.15%
66 43,604 0.14%
67 40,535 0.13%
68 40,392 0.13%
69 38,573 0.13%
70 37,664 0.12%
71 37,557 0.12%
72 33,095 0.11%
73 32,295 0.11%
74 31,419 0.10%
75 31,276 0.10%
76 26,826 0.09%
77 25,013 0.08%
78 24,371 0.08%
79 23,384 0.08%
80 23,304 0.08%
81 22,479 0.07%
82 21,617 0.07%
83 21,382 0.07%
84 18,291 0.06%
85 17,158 0.06%
86 17,099 0.06%
87 15,130 0.05%
88 14,052 0.05%
89 12,835 0.04%
90 12,776 0.04%
91 12,204 0.04%
92 11,914 0.04%
93 11,815 0.04%
94 11,764 0.04%
95 10,895 0.04%
96 10,594 0.04%
97 10,502 0.03%
98 10,392 0.03%
99 9,076 0.03%
100 8,672 0.03%
101 8,592 0.03%
102 8,328 0.03%
103 8,328 0.03%
104 8,016 0.03%
105 7,591 0.03%
106 7,107 0.02%
107 7,015 0.02%
108 6,912 0.02%
109 6,465 0.02%
110 6,219 0.02%
111 6,208 0.02%
112 6,113 0.02%
113 5,548 0.02%
114 5,302 0.02%
115 5,203 0.02%
116 4,976 0.02%
117 4,840 0.02%
118 4,815 0.02%
119 4,774 0.02%
120 4,602 0.02%
121 4,331 0.01%
123 4,117 0.01%
124 4,118 0.01%
125 4,067 0.01%
126 3,968 0.01%
127 3,953 0.01%
128 3,748 0.01%
129 3,542 0.01%
130 3,150 0.01%
131 3,146 0.01%
132 2,816 0.01%
133 2,816 0.01%
134 2,560 0.01%
135 2,472 0.01%
136 2,439 0.01%
137 2,435 0.01%
138 2,314 0.01%
139 2,288 0.01%
140 2,230 0.01%
141 2,200 0.01%
142 2,156 0.01%
143 2,109 0.01%
144 2,057 0.01%
145 1,999 0.01%
146 1,951 0.01%
147 1,936 0.01%
148 1,918 0.01%
149 1,911 0.01%
150 1,889 0.01%
151 1,856 0.01%
152 1,533 0.01%
153 1,525 0.01%
154 1,419 < 0.01%
155 1,393 < 0.01%
156 1,353 < 0.01%
157 1,335 < 0.01%
158 1,335 < 0.01%
159 1,254 < 0.01%
160 1,228 < 0.01%
161 1,093 < 0.01%
162 920 < 0.01%
163 913 < 0.01%
164 891 < 0.01%
165 851 < 0.01%
166 814 < 0.01%
167 733 < 0.01%
168 708 < 0.01%
169 704 < 0.01%
170 682 < 0.01%
171 649 < 0.01%
172 609 < 0.01%
173 594 < 0.01%
174 576 < 0.01%
175 557 < 0.01%
176 539 < 0.01%
177 524 < 0.01%
178 495 < 0.01%
179 447 < 0.01%
180 425 < 0.01%
181 422 < 0.01%
182 414 < 0.01%
183 411 < 0.01%
184 396 < 0.01%
185 389 < 0.01%
186 308 < 0.01%
187 282 < 0.01%
188 260 < 0.01%
189 249 < 0.01%
190 246 < 0.01%
191 238 < 0.01%
192 213 < 0.01%
193 202 < 0.01%
194 198 < 0.01%
195 191 < 0.01%
196 180 < 0.01%
197 176 < 0.01%
198 161 < 0.01%
199 158 < 0.01%
200 143 < 0.01%
201 128 < 0.01%
202 128 < 0.01%
203 125 < 0.01%
204 103 < 0.01%
205 99 < 0.01%
206 92 < 0.01%
207 77 < 0.01%
208 70 < 0.01%
209 66 < 0.01%
210 62 < 0.01%
211 59 < 0.01%
212 59 < 0.01%
213 29 < 0.01%
214 22 < 0.01%
215 11 < 0.01%
216 4 < 0.01%

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     (AMEE)
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USGS - Volcano Hazards Program Information - http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/index.php
"Volcanoes release more than 130 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year."

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The contents of this article comes from the latest figures from the millennium indicators as of 2009-07-14: