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Interesting ... Leaving aside the question of "where's France?" ...

Note: I'm not trying to make a political point here - more one about data manipulation and presentation. Although if I get rapped for politics, I will understand.

The first thing you notice is that big countries have high emissions. Which is kind of unsurprising. What is surprising is the presence of some small countries in there, like Saudi and Australia (I'm guessing Aus is Australia)

If you factor in population size it gets interesting.

The worst per-capita emitter is Saudi Arabia with 1.8% of emissions but only 0.4% of global population
Next up is Australia with 1.1% of emissions and only 0.3% of population.
Then the USA with 13.5% of emissions but 4% of population. Roughly the same as Aus per capita.
India has the lowest per capita emissions with 7.3% of the total but 18% of the population. That probably makes sense, as it is less developed.

So far so unsurprising.

On this scale, China is down in 9th position, with 30% of emissions but 17% of population. About on a par with Germany and Japan. Kinda mid table.

The UK is weirdly low, which makes me suspect the data. It has 0.9% of emissions and 0.8% of population. That's much lower than Germany. roughly 60% of Germany's per capita emissions. Can that really be right? Or is the data wonky?

It's like those stats that quote KSI per passenger mile and show air travel as perfectly safe, and shows walking as unbelievably hazardous in comparison. But it changes when you consider that flying covers roughly 200 times as many miles as walking in a given time. It all depends how you present the data. Is China the biggest emitter, or is it rather unexceptional in the per-capita stakes?

Carbon emissions from my Excel spreadsheet had moved me to the top of the CC emitters league