Talk:List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita

Greenland massive increase
So apparently Greenland's carbon emission per capita increase at just under 40,000% between 1990 and now... surely that can't be correct? Needs attention.

Chart
The chart needs fixing to make it more visible!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.64.24.152 (talk) 13:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes - this table has a big problem. You can't use it effectively as each country and its most recent data are not visible at the same time. Suggest that old data (older than 2000) be removed and that columns are made to appear such that most recent is left most column. I.E. reverse the year columns. As is now, the table is almost worthless. --66.41.154.0 (talk) 18:44, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
 * If the older data is removed, it wouldn't be necessary to also reverse the columns, as they'd all be visible. A problem with removing all the older data is that it reduces the scope for comparing how a country's emissions have changed over time. Two possible alternative solutions are either to insert the countries again at the right hand side of the table, or to remove selective older years so that some temporal comparison into earlier times is retained (e.g. retain 1990 and 1995 from the 1990s, but remove the rest). PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 08:09, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Someone really should divide this chart into two and put it side by side, like they do in the HDI for different regions. Jewnited (talk) 03:35, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

What do the second chart's rankings indicate? It doesn't correspond to either 1990 or 2011 levels (the endpoints). MaxGhenis (talk) 00:09, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Conflicting Image
The image does not reflect the information provided. There is a more accurate image at http://cdn3.chartsbin.com/chartimages/l_1149_4cda81a26c6f04959bf26c91f213752a (189.161.104.58 (talk) 16:23, 10 July 2012 (UTC))
 * Yes, the image has multiple problems. First of all, with 2000 data, it's woefully out of date.  China's per capita emissions have more than doubled since then.  Also, it doesn't seem to differentiate between zero emissions and no data.  If you compare Argentina and Brazil, it looks like Brazil has higher per capita emissions, but if you look at the table, you can see that in 2000 Argentina's per capita emissions were twice Brazil's.  The image above looks better.  I wonder if no image at all is better than the current one.Dansan99 (talk) 01:39, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Should we just delete the map as no one wants to create an updated version? Lots of personpower has been put to climate change related graphics, it's kind of odd how this central statistics has been completely neglected. --91.153.156.26 (talk) 18:27, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Pointless
This page is largely pointless; List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions has a table that can be sorted by total or per-capita William M. Connolley (talk) 16:08, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * This list contains data for many more countries than the other one. The List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions only lists 20 countries. Bouchecl (talk) 05:16, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Then merge them William M. Connolley (talk) 09:04, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Also, this page is out-of-date - it only goes up to 2013 as of now. Maintaining two separate pages with overlapping data is unnecessary work, which may explain why it isn't being done. Sayitclearly (talk) 09:09, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Sources?
The lede says "All data were calculated by the US Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC)", but no hardlink to the source material is provided. This page is more complete than this one, but it is useless if it can't be verified. Bouchecl (talk) 05:14, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

What?
Apparently, there are countries with higher carbon emmissions than the entire world including themselves. Sea Captain Cormac 19:25, 17 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cormac Nocton (talk • contribs)

Split production based on consumption based
I think making two page instead of one would be better, one for the production based and one for the consumption based calculatio. Gagarine (talk) 12:25, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * For the moment being I disagree : I believe that a general article with the two approaches is convenient. Maybe if we add a lot more data, we could start having detailed articles for each version. Fa suisse (talk) 15:01, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I would tend to agree more long term as well because, especially in light of the interconnected problem that is global warming, the distinction appears somewhat irrelevant. Production based emissions are ultimately and inescapably in direct service of per-capita consumption abilities. Qatar or SA or Canada could have the greenest of local populations, but selling all those fossil-fuels would nevertheless serve to offshore emissions from their wealth and quality of life. If a distinction is made, it should be contextualized as such. Nandofan (talk) 16:23, 15 November 2023 (UTC)

Use wikidata to generate the list?
This data could be added in wikidata no? And then use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikidata_list to generate the list. Gagarine (talk) 12:27, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Is this per capita per year?
Do you mean carbon dioxide emissions per capita per year? I assume so, in other "per capita" articles like the GDP per capita article it says "value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given year, divided by the average (or mid-year) population for the same year". It is worth a sentence just to clarify this for people who are not 100% on every single detail but since I am a random and lazy I will leave it to someone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:69A6:D01:8D28:414E:3DCD:AF9D (talk) 10:44, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

This article should be deleted
The data is old and not well presented. It is not GHG ... so agricuulural econmies are underrepresented and the data and comparisons are likely to mislead.

Conceivably somebody could update and clarify the article and the data. But I don't think anybody will be motivated to do so. There are more recent tables avaialble which also need to be worked on, and already for those, there don't seem to be many people ready to do the dogwork TGcoa (talk) 20:34, 23 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Agree on deletion. Anybody who wants a table both yearly and by country should be directed to the references section of a real article. List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions includes per-capita - not that it's perfect, but it's clearly better and makes this page obsolete. See WP:NOTDATABASE Wizmut (talk) 01:03, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Math not mathing
Canada emits over 300% of the world’s CO2? Something isn’t right here… 45.44.87.111 (talk) 23:58, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Change 1990-2022
The calculation is wrong for a lot of countries.

e.g

Ukraine  1990: 15.15 2022: 3.07 Change 20.28% decrease ?

Qatar 1990: 35.67 2022: 35.52 Change: 99.58% decrease ? Truc19much19 (talk) 13:36, 23 April 2024 (UTC)