Fossil CO2 emissions per capita

RecordSTO-2VBHMWFSVT-8JX92H4EHS-NV3CW2

0.49tonnes per capita

estimate

Mauritania · 2005

Fossil CO2 emissions per capita in Mauritania were 0.49 tonnes per capita in 2005 (GCP).

Original source

Publisher: GCP
Authority tier: T1 Official
Report: Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15)
Locator: GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat: {"ISO 3166-1 alpha-3":"MRT","Year":"2005"}
Retrieved: 2 Oct 2026
Status: Verified

Dataset evidence (generated description)

Dataset evidence (generated): GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat, MR, 2005-01-01 to 2005-12-31: 0.4878 tonnes per capita (scale 1).

Checked: the figure 0.49 tonnes per capitamatches the queried row in the pinned dataset response. If it does not match, the extraction is wrong and we want to know.

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APA

Global Carbon Project. (2005). Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15). Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat.csv/content. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2VBHMWFSVT8JX92H4EHSNV3CW2

Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX

MLA: Global Carbon Project. "Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15)." 2005, https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat.csv/content. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2VBHMWFSVT8JX92H4EHSNV3CW2.
Chicago: Global Carbon Project. "Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15)." 2005. https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat.csv/content. Accessed October 2, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2VBHMWFSVT8JX92H4EHSNV3CW2.
BibTeX: @misc{gcp2005fossilnv3cw2, author = {{Global Carbon Project}}, title = {Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15)}, year = {2005}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_2VBHMWFSVT8JX92H4EHSNV3CW2}, note = {Original source: https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15\_MtCO2\_flat.csv/content. Accessed October 2, 2026.} }

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Primary source

Publisher: Global Carbon Project · homepage ↗
Authority tier: Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
Report: Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15)
Type: Dataset
Evidence: Dataset response (generated description)
Dataset: GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat
Version: 2025v15
Methodology: Publisher methodology ↗
Response SHA-256: 20650c19b394d91b6b31cddff2fbc9508bcdbbed7c3f93660336f2f655f367ff
Response retrieved: 2 October 2026
Published: —
Locator: GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat: {"ISO 3166-1 alpha-3":"MRT","Year":"2005"}
Retrieved: 2 October 2026
Link status: Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence: CC by 4.0

Verification

Status: Verified
Review protocol: dataset:raw-row-check-v1
Checked on: 2 October 2026
Last revision: 4 October 2026
Permanent URL: /stat/stat_2VBHMWFSVT8JX92H4EHSNV3CW2

Same indicator, other countries

2005 figures for the same indicator, ranked highest first.

Country or region	Value	Source	Details
Qatar	57.8 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Curacao	33.5 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Kuwait	33.4 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Aruba	28.8 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Trinidad and Tobago	28.3 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Bahrain	26.3 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Luxembourg	25.9 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
United Arab Emirates	24.7 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
United States	20.7 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Saudi Arabia	20.1 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Australia	19 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Canada	17.6 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Brunei Darussalam	15.1 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Faroe Islands	14.9 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Oman	12.9 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record

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Record last modified 4 October 2026. Value type: estimate. Update cadence: annual. This page is permanently addressable at statorigin.org/stat/stat_2VBHMWFSVT8JX92H4EHSNV3CW2.