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Venezuela

The latest open data on emissions, energy and forests, compared with ten years earlier and with the world average.

In 2024, 4.1 tonnes of CO₂ per person were emitted on average, from fossil fuels and industry. The world average is 4.7.

Compared with 2014, the value has fallen by 30%.

91% of electricity comes from renewables and nuclear (2024).

Forests cover 52.2% of the land (2023).

From 2001 to 2025, trees disappeared from 2,630,646 hectares: 4.7% of the area that was tree-covered in 2000.

In 2025, 22,184 hectares of old tropical forest were lost.

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All indicators

Latest available value, ten-year change (green if it moves in the direction that lightens the load on the planet, red if the opposite) and the world average in the same year.

IndicatorLatest valueIn 10 yearsWorldSince 1990
Climate
CO₂ per persontonnes of CO₂ per person per year4.082024−1.744.73
Consumption-based CO₂ per persontonnes of CO₂ per person per year3.552023−1.104.71
Greenhouse gases per person (incl. land use)tonnes of CO₂ equivalent per person (all greenhouse gases converted to CO₂)6.792024−2.816.67
Methane per persontonnes of CO₂ equivalent per person1.682024−0.691.16
CO₂ from deforestation and land use per persontonnes of CO₂ per person per year0.352024−0.030.56
Share of historical CO₂ emissions% of all CO₂ emitted worldwide since 17500.432024−0.02100.00
CO₂ imported (+) or exported (−) in goods% of the country's emissions-15.92023+14.00.0
CO₂ per unit of GDPkg of CO₂ per dollar of wealth produced0.7242022+0.3930.288
CO₂ per km² of territorytonnes of CO₂ per km² per year1272024−65—
Energy
Primary energy per personkWh of energy per person per year24,7162023−9,95221,286
Fossil share of energy%74.22024−5.381.3
Renewable share of energy%25.82024+5.314.8
Electricity
Renewable share of electricity%91.12024+35.231.9
Low-carbon electricity (renewables and nuclear)%91.12024+35.240.9
Solar share of electricity%0.020240.06.9
Wind share of electricity%0.02024−0.18.1
Coal share of electricity%0.020240.034.1
Carbon intensity of electricitygrams of CO₂ equivalent per kWh of electricity862024−255471
Green
Forest cover% of land covered by forest52.22023−1.1—

Trees and forests

Hectares where trees were cut or burned each year (areas with at least 30% canopy), from 2001 to 2025.

2001: 123,901 ha2002: 90,340 ha2003: 87,218 ha2004: 90,926 ha2005: 94,954 ha2006: 85,504 ha2007: 114,340 ha2008: 120,586 ha2009: 142,453 ha2010: 101,297 ha2011: 74,407 ha2012: 105,952 ha2013: 64,489 ha2014: 100,940 ha2015: 61,336 ha2016: 207,337 ha2017: 166,998 ha2018: 112,166 ha2019: 140,699 ha2020: 139,221 ha2021: 64,337 ha2022: 55,749 ha2023: 76,608 ha2024: 145,093 ha2025: 63,795 ha
2001207,337 ha max2025

On average, from 2001 to 2025, the country's forests removed 163.1 million tonnes of CO₂ from the air each year and released 47.3 through logging and fires.

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Sources: Global Carbon Project, Energy Institute and Ember (via Our World in Data), FAO (via the World Bank), Global Forest Watch (University of Maryland and World Resources Institute). Details on the data page. Data