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by ced 1924 days ago
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=~CHN

You can add US for comparison. China's emissions have been plateauing for the past 10 years, while the US is going down. Per-capita, China is still less than half of the US, so it'll take a long time before the US catches up, if ever.

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And if you choose to normalize by GDP, China emits twice as much as the USA[1][2]. China has lots of very poor people, bringing down the per-capita average, but the USA has a more carbon efficient economy.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/china/co2-emissions-kg-per-ppp-.... [2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/co2-emissions-kg-....