2008 Emissions Data:
A: 2008 estimated total CO2 emissions, in millions of tons
B: 2008 mid-year population estimate, in millions
C: 2008 per-capita CO2 emissions, in tons per capita
D: Emissions relative to US emissions, as a percentage
Country: ( A | B | C | D)
China: ( 6809.7 | 1324.7 | 5.1 | 106.9%)
US: ( 6369.8 | 304.5 | 20.9 | 100.0%)
Russia: ( 1687.6 | 141.9 | 11.9 | 26.5%)
India: ( 1408.5 | 1149.3 | 1.2 | 22.1%)
Japan: ( 1391.5 | 127.7 | 10.9 | 21.8%)
Germany: ( 857.3 | 82.2 | 10.4 | 13.5%)
S_Korea: ( 663.5 | 48.6 | 13.7 | 10.4%)
Canada ( 658.3 | 33.3 | 19.8 | 10.3%)
Britain ( 581.8 | 61.3 | 9.5 | 9.1%)
Iran ( 513.5 | 72.2 | 7.1 | 8.1%)
(Yet to do: Combined EU tallies, which would put the EU right behind China and the US on total and per-capita emissions.)
2008 CO2 estimates
The World of Renewable Energy Industry, IWR, Germany.
http://www.iwr.de/welcomee.html
IWR's data table: pdf file, view as html.
2008 Population estimates
Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2008/2008wpds.aspx
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As one can see from the table:
-- India's total CO2 emissions are only 22% of US' total emissions. About 1 in 4.5.
-- India's total CO2 emissions are only 20.7% of China's total emissions. About 1 in 4.8.
-- India's per-capita CO2 emissions (1.2 tons per capita) are about 1 in 17 of US' (20.9 tons per capita)
-- India's per-capita CO2 emissions (1.2 tons per capita) are about 1 in 4.25 of China's (5.1 tons per capita)
In other words, India's emissions ARE far behind US and China's, in both per-capita AND total emissions.
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