The poorer half of the world population emit 14% of global CO2 emissions.
The richest half are responsible for the remaining 86 percent all CO2 emissions.
@HannahRitchie02 for @OurWorldInDatahttps://ourworldindata.org/co2-by-income-region …
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The GDP / emissions ratio (‘emissions intensity’) over the incomes of countries around the world looks like this. Low emissions per unit of prosperity for the richest and poorest and high for middle income countries. [More in our entry https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions#co2-intensity-and-prosperity …]pic.twitter.com/rRUwGibGsB
The x axis being on a log scale, I'd guess that the richer half of countries create a higher percentage of the world's wealth than pollution.
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Yes, that’s true. The answer is (20.6+50)/(20.6+50+6.4+0.4)=91.2% of total production is done in upper-middle and high income countries which are home to 51% of the world’s populationhttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gross-domestic-product?tab=chart&country=Low%20income+High%20income+Lower%20middle%20income+Upper%20middle%20income …
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