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Every country’s CO₂ per person, 2024Each country shaded by its figure for the latest year most countries report; click one to see its figures below.
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4.7 t for the world, 2024. CO₂ per person; 203 countries have a figure that year.

  • CO₂ per person, 2024:
  • Under 0.50 t
  • 0.50 t–1.6 t
  • 1.6 t–3.6 t
  • 3.6 t–6.0 t
  • 6.0 t or more
  • No figure
Indicator: CO₂ per person (t CO₂), 2024, WDI EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0). Map: Natural Earth, Admin 0 countries 1:110m, Natural Earth projection

Every country

The world

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The planet this month

Each reading has its own date: Global surface temperature, September 2026, against the 1951–1980 average; Carbon dioxide, Mauna Loa, September 2026
Temperature

September 2026 was the 2nd warmest September since 1880

+1.38°C

  • Against the 1951–1980 average
  • 2025 averaged +1.19°C, the 2nd warmest of 146 complete years; the warmest were 2024 (+1.28°C), 2025 (+1.19°C), 2023 (+1.17°C)
Global temperature, 1880–2025Each year against the 1951–1980 average, over one stripe per year.
−0.50+0.5+1+1.5°C1880: -0.17°C1881: -0.09°C1882: -0.11°C1883: -0.18°C1884: -0.28°C1885: -0.33°C1886: -0.31°C1887: -0.36°C1888: -0.18°C1889: -0.11°C1890: -0.36°C1891: -0.22°C1892: -0.27°C1893: -0.31°C1894: -0.30°C1895: -0.23°C1896: -0.11°C1897: -0.11°C1898: -0.28°C1899: -0.18°C1900: -0.08°C1901: -0.16°C1902: -0.28°C1903: -0.37°C1904: -0.47°C1905: -0.26°C1906: -0.22°C1907: -0.38°C1908: -0.42°C1909: -0.48°C1910: -0.43°C1911: -0.44°C1912: -0.37°C1913: -0.34°C1914: -0.15°C1915: -0.14°C1916: -0.36°C1917: -0.46°C1918: -0.30°C1919: -0.27°C1920: -0.27°C1921: -0.18°C1922: -0.28°C1923: -0.26°C1924: -0.27°C1925: -0.22°C1926: -0.11°C1927: -0.21°C1928: -0.20°C1929: -0.36°C1930: -0.15°C1931: -0.09°C1932: -0.16°C1933: -0.28°C1934: -0.13°C1935: -0.20°C1936: -0.15°C1937: -0.03°C1938: -0.00°C1939: -0.02°C1940: +0.12°C1941: +0.18°C1942: +0.06°C1943: +0.09°C1944: +0.20°C1945: +0.09°C1946: -0.07°C1947: -0.03°C1948: -0.11°C1949: -0.11°C1950: -0.18°C1951: -0.07°C1952: +0.01°C1953: +0.08°C1954: -0.13°C1955: -0.14°C1956: -0.19°C1957: +0.05°C1958: +0.06°C1959: +0.03°C1960: -0.03°C1961: +0.06°C1962: +0.03°C1963: +0.05°C1964: -0.20°C1965: -0.11°C1966: -0.06°C1967: -0.02°C1968: -0.08°C1969: +0.05°C1970: +0.03°C1971: -0.08°C1972: +0.01°C1973: +0.16°C1974: -0.07°C1975: -0.01°C1976: -0.10°C1977: +0.18°C1978: +0.07°C1979: +0.16°C1980: +0.26°C1981: +0.32°C1982: +0.14°C1983: +0.32°C1984: +0.16°C1985: +0.12°C1986: +0.18°C1987: +0.32°C1988: +0.39°C1989: +0.27°C1990: +0.45°C1991: +0.41°C1992: +0.22°C1993: +0.23°C1994: +0.31°C1995: +0.45°C1996: +0.33°C1997: +0.47°C1998: +0.61°C1999: +0.38°C2000: +0.39°C2001: +0.53°C2002: +0.63°C2003: +0.62°C2004: +0.53°C2005: +0.68°C2006: +0.64°C2007: +0.67°C2008: +0.54°C2009: +0.66°C2010: +0.72°C2011: +0.61°C2012: +0.65°C2013: +0.67°C2014: +0.75°C2015: +0.90°C2016: +1.01°C2017: +0.91°C2018: +0.85°C2019: +0.98°C2020: +1.01°C2021: +0.85°C2022: +0.89°C2023: +1.17°C2024: +1.28°C2025: +1.19°C190019502000
  • 10-year average
  • Each year
Indicator: Global mean surface temperature anomaly, yearly (°C against 1951–1980)Source: NASA GISTEMP v4, via climatedata.dev
Carbon dioxide

+1.7 ppm from a year before

426.1 ppm

  • Mauna Loa, September 2026
Carbon dioxide, the last 40 yearsThe monthly mean at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, with its seasonal swing.
3403603804004204401990200020102020
Indicator: CO₂ mole fraction in dry air, monthly mean (ppm)Source: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, via climatedata.dev
Capital cities

176 of 194 warmer than normal

91% of capitals, 2025

  • Each capital’s year against its own 1991–2020 normal
Every capital, 2025Capitals by how far their year was from normal; each dot is 3 capitals.
−1°C0°C+1°C+2°C+3°C
  • Cooler than normal
  • Warmer than normal
Indicator: Capital city temperature against normal, 2025 (°C against 1991–2020)Source: NASA POWER, POWER monthly 2 m air temperature (MERRA-2) at each capital (U.S. public domain), via climatedata.dev world-capitals, version 2026-10-25.06179c5d54
Space

Busiest full year on record: 2025, with 330

253 launches in 2026

  • To October 23; against 250 by the same day of 2025
  • 16,946 working satellites in orbit
Orbital launches, 1990–2025Orbital launch attempts each full year, worldwide.
02004001990: 1211991: 911992: 971993: 851994: 941995: 801996: 771997: 891998: 821999: 782000: 852001: 592002: 652003: 642004: 542005: 562006: 662007: 682008: 692009: 782010: 742011: 842012: 782013: 812014: 922015: 872016: 862017: 902018: 1142019: 1032020: 1142021: 1462022: 1862023: 2212024: 2622025: 330199020102025
Indicator: Orbital launch attempts per year, successes and failuresSource: GCAT (Jonathan McDowell)

Key figures for the world, and every country

Each figure in the latest year most countries report
IndicatorWorldHighestLowestAmong all countriesLast 20 years
GDP per person (PPP)2025 · At purchasing-power parity, international $ $21,914 Singapore $139,593Burundi $1,067 The world figure among 184 countries
Life expectancy at birth2024 73.5 years Monaco 86.5 yearsNigeria 54.6 years The world figure among 215 countries
CO₂ per person2024 4.7 t Palau 82.8 tTuvalu 0.00 t The world figure among 203 countries
Renewables in electricity2021 27.8% Bhutan 100.0%Sint Maarten 0.0% The world figure among 203 countries
Deaths before age 52024 37.4 per 1,000 Nigeria 115.6 per 1,000San Marino 1.3 per 1,000 The world figure among 195 countries
Births per woman2024 · About 2.1 keeps a population steady 2.19 Chad 6.03Macao SAR China 0.58 The world figure among 215 countries

Ranks put the highest value first. Each row uses the latest year at least 90% of the best-covered year’s countries report, so a few countries may have a newer figure on their own page. The histograms trim the top and bottom 1% of countries so the middle is readable. Source: the World Bank’s World Development Indicators for each row.

The United States this week

Every state and county, from the latest federal releases. Pick a US state or county ›

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Indicators

40 for every country and 22 for every US state and county: what each one measures, who publishes it, and how complete it is.

Compare

Put places side by side on any indicators, as a table, trends, a scatter, a correlogram, radars or a treemap.

Sources

Every publisher and API behind the site, and the files each figure is checked against.

Every place

232 countries, 53 US states and territories and 3,222 counties, each with its own page.

Right now

Drought, wildfires and rivers in every state and county this week.

Topics

One question for every place: was last month normal, how did it vote, how is the job market.

The planet

Global temperature, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.

Space

Every launch since 1957, and everything in orbit now.

How’s my lake?

12 Minnesota lakes and how green their water is, from satellite images.

Figures as of the site's last build. Drought: week of October 20, 2026. Wildfires: October 28, 2026. Streams: October 26, 2026.