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Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions excluding LULUCF per capita (t CO2e/capita): Vietnam, 1970–2024

Latest (2024)
4.27 tonnes per person
Source
World Bank
Code
EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5
Frequency
Yearly
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Definition

Total annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF, standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values divided by the economy's population. This measure excludes GHG fluxes caused by Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF), as these fluxes have larger uncertainties.

What the series shows

The series runs from 1970 to 2024 (55 years of data). It moved from 0.42 to 4.27 tonnes per person, a change of 910.6%. The highest value was 4.27 in 2024 and the lowest 0.28 in 1976. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.

Using it in a thesis

Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.

Values by year

YearValue (tonnes per person)
20244.27
20233.89
20223.45
20213.40
20203.55
20193.46
20182.93
20172.41
20162.38
20152.16
20141.95
20131.80
20121.75
20111.77
20101.79
20091.63
20081.48
20071.37
20061.26
20051.24
20041.14
20030.98
20020.93
20010.80
20000.73
19990.67
19980.66
19970.60
19960.53
19950.48
19940.42
19930.37
19920.32
19910.31
19900.31
19890.32
19880.38
19870.39
19860.36
19850.33
19840.34
19830.35
19820.33
19810.31
19800.31
19790.30
19780.30
19770.30
19760.28
19750.40
19740.35
19730.43
19720.39
19710.41
19700.42

Comparison with other countries

CountryLatest yearValue
Vietnam20244.27
Thailand20243.96
Indonesia20242.87
Malaysia20248.32
Philippines20241.50
Singapore20249.75
Cambodia20241.10
Laos20243.35
Myanmar20240.58
China20249.32

How to cite (APA 7)

World Bank. (2026). Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions excluding LULUCF per capita (t CO2e/capita), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5?locations=VN

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period with the variable name en_ghg_co2_pc_ce_ar5, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.

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