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CO₂ Emissions of the Top 10 Countries, 1750–2020

A stacked area chart of annual production-based CO₂ emissions for the ten largest emitters: China, the United States, India, Russia, Japan, Iran, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.

Stacked area chart of annual CO2 emissions for the ten largest emitting countries from 1750 to 2020, reaching about 24,000 million metric tons a year. The United States is the largest emitter for most of the 1900s; China grows sharply after 2000 to become the largest.

Data: Our World in Data CO₂ dataset Made with Python, pandas and matplotlib · View the code