{
  "study": {
    "slug": "how-eu-emissions-are-measured",
    "title": "One EU Method Counts More Than Twice the Danish Emissions Another Does",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/how-eu-emissions-are-measured"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Emissions from production activities, 2024",
  "valueHeading": "kg CO2 equivalent per inhabitant",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest EU Member States, with the EU aggregate for reference.",
  "decimals": 0,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "This is the air emissions accounts basis, which follows resident economic units wherever they operate. The national inventory basis, used in the companion study, counts emissions inside a country's borders instead.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Greenhouse gas emissions from production activities",
    "code": "cei_gsr011",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "airpol": "GHG",
      "nace_r2": "TOTAL",
      "unit": "KG_HAB",
      "time": "2024"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-08-11",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-08-07",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/cei_gsr011",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/cei_gsr011/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Denmark",
      "value": 13453,
      "gap_to_reference": 7619,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "i"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Luxembourg",
      "value": 11754,
      "gap_to_reference": 5920,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "i"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Malta",
      "value": 11584,
      "gap_to_reference": 5750,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "i"
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 5834,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": "i"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Spain",
      "value": 4414,
      "gap_to_reference": -1420,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Sweden",
      "value": 4122,
      "gap_to_reference": -1712,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Portugal",
      "value": 3967,
      "gap_to_reference": -1867,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "i"
    }
  ]
}