Transport accounts for approximately 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, making it a major contributor to global climate change. This chart shows the top 25 emitting countries (including the EU-27) of transport-related CO2 emissions, in both absolute and per capita terms. Together, these countries account for 88 percent of global emissions from this sector, with the five largest emitters accounting for two-thirds of the global total.

This graphic is based on an original chart published in WRI's Navigating the Numbers (Baumert et al., 2005).