Guyana now emits more CO2 per person than Britain
Fossil CO2 emissions per person, tonnes, 2015–2025, Guyana, Britain and the world. 2025 preliminary.
- 1. China now uses more electricity per person than the EU
- 2. Solar now makes more of Brazil's power than fossil fuels
- 3. Rooftop solar now outsizes coal on Australia's main grid
- 4. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
- 5. France swung from power importer to record exporter
- 6. Over a quarter of China's new heavy trucks are electric
- 7. More than two in three cars Nepal imports are electric
- 8. The US now ships a quarter of the world's LNG
- 9. Kazakhstan mines more uranium than Canada and Namibia combined
- 10. Indonesia now mines two-thirds of the world's nickel
- 11. India had 27 million ACs for 1.3 billion people
- 12. Sun and wind now beat fossil fuels in Chile
- 13. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
- 14. Argentina mined 60% more lithium in just one year
- 15. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
- 16. Only 16 countries are building new coal power plants
- 17. Egypt's sun and wind now outproduce its Nile dams
- 18. The price of lithium fell 86% in three years
- 19. Pakistan now gets more power from solar than from coal
- 20. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
- 21. The Philippines is building more solar than it already runs
- 22. Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels
- 23. Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014
- 24. India's sun and wind now outproduce Germany's
- 25. Solar now beats coal in 25 of 81 coal-burning countries
- 26. Indonesia climbed from ninth to second among cobalt miners
- 27. Fossil fuels fell from all to two-thirds of UAE power
- 28. DR Congo tripled its copper mining in ten years
- 29. Paraguay now uses most of the power it makes
- 30. Nigeria now imports more solar panels than generators
- 31. Zimbabwe climbed to fourth among the world's lithium miners
- 32. Coal's share of Bangladesh's power jumped from 2% to 22%
- 33. Guyana now emits more CO2 per person than Britain
CO2 per Guyanese in 2025, nearly double the 2.6 t of 2015, as offshore oil came online.
Guyana has emitted more per person than Britain every year since 2022, and more than the world average.
of Guyana's 2025 figure is gas flaring. Oil it exports is counted where it is burned.
the numbers & method
| Year | Guyana (t) | Britain (t) | World (t) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2.6 | 6.5 | |
| 2019 | 3.3 | ||
| 2020 | 4.6 | 4.8 | |
| 2021 | 4.1 | 5.1 | |
| 2022 | 5.4 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
| 2025 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 4.7 |
Claim types Fact · Estimate
Global Carbon Budget fossil CO2 dataset, edition 2026v11 (Zenodo record 23667912), file GCB2026v11_percapita_flat.csv, tonnes CO2 per person, territorial emissions (fossil fuels, cement, flaring). Guyana: 2015 2.598, 2019 3.326, 2020 4.61, 2021 4.08, 2022 5.429, 2023 4.79, 2024 4.849, 2025 5.077. UK: 2015 6.461, 2020 4.84, 2021 5.06, 2022 4.553, 2023 4.48, 2024 4.593, 2025 4.599. World: 2022 4.672, 2023 4.713, 2024 4.735, 2025 4.737. 2025 is preliminary (Estimate). The 2020 jump is largely flaring (1.37 t). Population under one million. Land-use emissions and forest sinks not included.
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