🇳🇱 The Netherlands
How green is the average person in The Netherlands?
Above the world average
The Netherlands emits 7.8 tCO2 per person per year, 1.7× the world average, and 3.4× the Paris-aligned 2030 target. Ranked 16 of 51 countries by per-capita emissions.
Per-capita CO2
7.8 tCO2
per person, per year
Total emissions
139 Mt
17.9M people
Electricity grid
268 g/kWh
CO2 per kWh of electricity
Calculate your own footprint in The Netherlands
Diet, driving, flying, heating. We turn your lifestyle into tonnes of CO2 per year and compare it to The Netherlands's average.
Step 1 of 4Diet
Tell us about your year
Four short steps. Skip what you do not know. Defaults reflect a typical lifestyle in your country.
What do you eat in a typical week?
Diet is around a fifth of a typical footprint in rich countries. Animal protein dominates the impact.
Anchor: world average 4.7 tCO2/yr · Paris-aligned 2030: 2.3 tCO2/yr.