EU EDGAR v8.0 · AR6 GWP100 · June 20, 2026
Greenhouse gas emissions statistics from the live EDGAR extract
Key findings on concentration, absolute versus per-capita ordinals, sector methane share, and the empty LULUCF fact table. Registry counts only, not climate policy advice.
According to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, EDGAR v8.0 publishes 2023 country estimates within a global annual greenhouse-gas total of roughly 50,000 MtCO₂e; this August 2026 statistics surface documents the source scope and exclusions in our methodology.
The extract in one line
51-economy EDGAR 2023: 47,111 Mt CO₂e; China 33.9% absolute (#1) while United Arab Emirates leads per person at 27 t; top three hold 55.4%.
- 51
- economies in this EDGAR register
- 55.4%
- held by the top three absolute emitters
- #1/#13
- China absolute vs per-capita
- 92.4%
- Waste methane share of its CO₂e
Key findings
Standalone, citable statements from this extract. Free to reuse with attribution to PlainEmissions and EU EDGAR (CC BY 4.0; cite the page).
- 51 major economies sit in this EDGAR extract (58,527 rows, 1970–2023). It is not a 200-country world census; every share below is of this 51-economy register.
- 47,111 Mt CO₂e in 2023 across the extract (AR6 GWP100, LULUCF excluded). China alone is 15,970 Mt (33.9%); the top three sum to 26,082 Mt (55.4%). Denmark is the absolute floor at 41.9 Mt.
- #1/#13 is China's absolute vs per-capita ordinal (15,970 Mt, 11.3 tCO₂e/person). United Arab Emirates leads per person at 27 t (#1 pc / #33 abs). India is #3 absolute but #45 per person (2.9 t); Bangladesh is the per-person floor at 1.6 t.
- 15,801 Mt in Energy leads the 7 live sectors. Waste is only 1,697 Mt but 92.4% methane by CO₂e, versus 0.1% in Energy, the absolute and methane-share ladders are not interchangeable.
- 75.4% of the 2023 extract CO₂e is carbon dioxide (35,500 Mt). Methane is 17%, N₂O 4.4%, and F-gases 3.3% on the same AR6 GWP100 scale.
- 0 LULUCF fact rows sit in this database even though the sectors taxonomy lists 8 codes (7 with live EDGAR rows). Country and sector totals here exclude land use; do not invent LULUCF country figures from this extract.
- 7.88× is China's 1970→2023 absolute growth (2,026 → 15,970 Mt). The United States moved 5,702 → 5,969 Mt (1.05×) over the same window, nearly flat while China multiplied.
- 45.5% of extract Mt sits in East Asia & Pacific (12 of 51 economies, 21,452 Mt). Region shares inherit the 51-economy sample, not a complete regional census.
Two cuts of the same extract
Sector MtCO₂e in 2023. The gauge is China's share of the 51-economy register.
Download the country-level CSV (51 rows, CC BY 4.0).
Source: EU EDGAR v8.0 (European Commission Joint Research Centre) Country × sector × gas emissions (AR6 GWP100), LULUCF excluded · 1970–2023 Figures are PlainEmissions' presentation of the published EDGAR extract for 51 major economies, not an official JRC release and not climate or investment advice.
According to the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the EDGAR v8.0 dataset publishes country- and sector-level greenhouse-gas inventories on a common bottom-up model. Every figure on PlainEmissions is rebuilt from that release; no number is typed in by an editor. Key findings are computed live from emissions_records for the latest EDGAR year; absolute and per-capita ranks use the same country set. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of EDGAR 2023. EDGAR figures are production-based inventory totals for a published reference year (AR6 GWP100, LULUCF excluded on ranked surfaces) - not climate policy advice, real-time emissions, or a substitute for UNFCCC legal inventories.