Two of the tables above provide information regarding the CO2 emissions per person in 2010 and the gross domestic product (GDP) between 2000 and 2010, both divided by five countries (USA, China, Germany, Japan, France).
Overall, USA produced the highest levels of carbon dioxide along with exports, while Japan barely emitted carbon dioxide in that year. All countries’ GDP fluctuated, with the two European countries showing a similar pattern in their fluctuations.
The United States released the largest amount of CO2 (just over 6 tons per person), and Germany’s emissions is about half of that. An average person in France emitted only 1.63 tons of CO2, whereas China and Japan both maintained emissions below a ton per person. Conversely, China’s GDP rose in a steady manner from about $1 trillion in 2000 to almost reaching $6 trillion in the final year, but income in Japan only fluctuated slightly around half a trillion dollars. Production in USA was valued at $10 trillon in 2000, and climbed to a peak of $14.62 trillion in 2010. Furthermore, Germany and France’s GDP fluctuated similarly, except Germany’s income was always about a trillion higher than France.