Fossil CO2 emissions per capita

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1.02tonnes per capita

estimate

Sri Lanka · 2016

Fossil CO2 emissions per capita in Sri Lanka were 1.02 tonnes per capita in 2016 (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":"LKA","Year":"2016"}
Retrieved: 2 Oct 2026
Status: Verified

Dataset evidence (generated description)

Dataset evidence (generated): GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat, LK, 2016-01-01 to 2016-12-31: 1.019553 tonnes per capita (scale 1).

Checked: the figure 1.02 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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Global Carbon Project. (2016). 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_WZCA9KT3Z8Y9ZTHBE7B1JS9N18

Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX

MLA: Global Carbon Project. "Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15)." 2016, https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat.csv/content. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WZCA9KT3Z8Y9ZTHBE7B1JS9N18.
Chicago: Global Carbon Project. "Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15)." 2016. https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat.csv/content. Accessed October 2, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WZCA9KT3Z8Y9ZTHBE7B1JS9N18.
BibTeX: @misc{gcp2016fossiljs9n18, author = {{Global Carbon Project}}, title = {Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15)}, year = {2016}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_WZCA9KT3Z8Y9ZTHBE7B1JS9N18}, 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":"LKA","Year":"2016"}
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_WZCA9KT3Z8Y9ZTHBE7B1JS9N18

Same indicator, other countries

2016 figures for the same indicator, ranked highest first.

Country or region	Value	Source	Details
Curacao	37 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Qatar	35.2 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Trinidad and Tobago	27.7 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Kuwait	26 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
United Arab Emirates	25.2 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Bahrain	22.1 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Saudi Arabia	20.9 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
New Caledonia	19.3 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Brunei Darussalam	17.9 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Australia	16.8 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Kazakhstan	16.4 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
United States	15.9 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Luxembourg	15.6 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Canada	15.2 tonnes per capita	GCP	Open record
Oman	15.1 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_WZCA9KT3Z8Y9ZTHBE7B1JS9N18.