WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions excluding LULUCF per capita (t CO2e/capita)

read at 2024 · 2 years old

Carbon dioxide emitted per person per year, excluding land use, land-use change and forestry.

World median

2.55t CO₂e per person

Countries reporting

203/ 217

Observations, all years

11.2k

The median is computed across the 203 countries reporting in 2024 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. This indicator has no better end — it is reported as context, not as a score.

How the world is spread · 2024

110 countries between 0.00 and 2.96 t CO₂e per person50 countries between 2.96 and 5.92 t CO₂e per person20 countries between 5.92 and 8.88 t CO₂e per person7 countries between 8.88 and 11.83 t CO₂e per person5 countries between 11.83 and 14.79 t CO₂e per person2 countries between 14.79 and 17.75 t CO₂e per person5 countries between 17.75 and 20.71 t CO₂e per person2 countries between 23.67 and 26.63 t CO₂e per person1 country between 44.38 and 47.34 t CO₂e per person1 country between 79.88 and 82.84 t CO₂e per personMEDIAN0.0082.84
203 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 0.81 t CO₂e per person

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2171970: 203 of 217 countries reported1971: 203 of 217 countries reported1972: 203 of 217 countries reported1973: 203 of 217 countries reported1974: 203 of 217 countries reported1975: 203 of 217 countries reported1976: 203 of 217 countries reported1977: 203 of 217 countries reported1978: 203 of 217 countries reported1979: 203 of 217 countries reported1980: 203 of 217 countries reported1981: 203 of 217 countries reported1982: 203 of 217 countries reported1983: 203 of 217 countries reported1984: 203 of 217 countries reported1985: 203 of 217 countries reported1986: 203 of 217 countries reported1987: 203 of 217 countries reported1988: 203 of 217 countries reported1989: 203 of 217 countries reported1990: 203 of 217 countries reported1991: 203 of 217 countries reported1992: 203 of 217 countries reported1993: 203 of 217 countries reported1994: 203 of 217 countries reported1995: 203 of 217 countries reported1996: 203 of 217 countries reported1997: 203 of 217 countries reported1998: 203 of 217 countries reported1999: 203 of 217 countries reported2000: 203 of 217 countries reported2001: 203 of 217 countries reported2002: 203 of 217 countries reported2003: 203 of 217 countries reported2004: 203 of 217 countries reported2005: 203 of 217 countries reported2006: 203 of 217 countries reported2007: 203 of 217 countries reported2008: 203 of 217 countries reported2009: 203 of 217 countries reported2010: 203 of 217 countries reported2011: 203 of 217 countries reported2012: 203 of 217 countries reported2013: 203 of 217 countries reported2014: 203 of 217 countries reported2015: 203 of 217 countries reported2016: 203 of 217 countries reported2017: 203 of 217 countries reported2018: 203 of 217 countries reported2019: 203 of 217 countries reported2020: 203 of 217 countries reported2021: 203 of 217 countries reported2022: 203 of 217 countries reported2023: 203 of 217 countries reported2024: 203 of 217 countries reported19702024
Best year 1970 with 203 of 217 · most recent 2024 with 203. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2024

Palau82.84
Qatar47.33
Bahrain23.90
Kuwait23.67
Brunei Darussalam20.24
Trinidad and Tobago19.58
Oman18.65
Saudi Arabia18.48

Lowest · 2024

Tuvalu0.00
Naoero0.00
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.0.00
Guam0.00
Virgin Islands (U.S.)0.00
American Samoa0.00
Northern Mariana Islands0.00
Marshall Islands0.00

Read with care

  • · Deliberately unscored. Lower is better for the climate, but per-capita emissions also track industrialisation and energy access — colouring low emissions 'good' would score poverty as a success.
  • · Excludes land use and forestry, which dominate the total in some countries.
  • · Production-based: emissions embodied in imported goods count against the country that made them, not the one that consumed them.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →