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1Calculation factorsCarbon footprint of one person in France, 1 year (reference)
The greenhouse gases emitted in France and abroad to produce what France consumes and invests in over one year.
- Selected reference: In 2025, provisional estimate, source Insee and SDES.
- Counted: emissions from French and foreign production of the goods and services consumed or invested in France, and direct household emissions.
- Out of scope: emissions from exported products and from land-use change.
Sentence to citeCarbon footprint of one person in France, 1 year (reference): 8.3 tCO2e, figure published by Insee and SDES.
Origin of the value
Plus household heating and fuel, divided by the number of inhabitants. Insee and the statistical service of the Ministry of Ecological Transition estimate it at 8.3 tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2025, a provisional figure.
Characteristics
| Unit | 1 person, 1 year : in 2025, provisional estimate |
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| Location | not applicable: a published total does not depend on the location of the servers |
| Counted | emissions from French and foreign production of the goods and services consumed or invested in France, and direct household emissions |
| Not counted | emissions from exported products and from land-use change |
| Status | published, 1 reading with the same scope, 3 other published values, 1 discarded |
All the characteristics
| Identifier | IA-0119, projetcelsius.com/en/ai/database/IA-0119/ |
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| Version | 0.1 of 13 November 2026 |
| Category | Infrastructure, published as is |
| Year | 2019 (9.5 tCO2e), 2025, provisional estimate (8.3 tCO2e) |
| Choice of the selected value | value taken as it stands from its source, without calculation |
| Sources | Insee and SDES, 2026 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Result for the chosen case
Sources of the calculation
1 publication, for this entry and those used to calculate it, with the chosen parameters.
Energy and factors
The references of the selected values and of the entries used in this calculation.
Insee and SDES · October 2026
Role and limits : Insee and SDES
Author. Insee and SDES, Grenier, Larrieu and Baude
What the publication covers. emissions and carbon footprint of France, from 1990 to 2025, per person and by component
What it does not cover. land-use change
Reading by the database. The reference public statistic; the most recent year is provisional
Reference of the variant "In 2025, provisional estimate"
Scope of the figure used. France, 2025, domestic final demand, imports included; CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases, excluding land-use change
Limit. A provisional estimate from input-output tables, revised the following year
Published values
5 figures for the same quantity, each in its own scope.
| Source | Date | CO2e | What the figure measures | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDES ↗L'empreinte carbone de la France de 1990 à 2024 | Oct. 2025 | 8.2 tCO2e | France, 2024, first provisional estimate | same scope | outdated |
| Insee and SDES ↗Émissions de gaz à effet de serre et empreinte carbone de la France en 2025 (Insee Première n° 2130) | Oct. 2026 | 8.3 tCO2e | France, 2025, domestic final demand, imports included; CO2, methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases, excluding land-use change | same scope | estimated |
| Insee and SDES ↗Émissions de gaz à effet de serre et empreinte carbone de la France en 2025 (Insee Première n° 2130) | Oct. 2026 | 9.5 tCO2e | France, 2019, same scope, before the health crisis | same scope | estimated |
| Insee and SDES ↗Émissions de gaz à effet de serre et empreinte carbone de la France en 2025 (Insee Première n° 2130) | Oct. 2026 | 5.8 tCO2e | France, 2025, emissions of French resident units, excluding imports and including exports | other scope | estimated |
| Insee and SDES ↗Émissions de gaz à effet de serre et empreinte carbone de la France en 2025 (Insee Première n° 2130) | Oct. 2026 | 571 MtCO2e | France, 2025, total footprint: 296 Mt for imports, 175 Mt for French production, 100 Mt of direct household emissions | other scope | estimated |
The published figures do not all count the same scope; the scope of each figure is written next to it. Why do the estimates diverge?
Methodology conventions
With their alternatives
| The rule | a published total is reproduced as is, with its year and scope; it is not converted with an average factor and does not add to the database's calculations |
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| Calculate a case without an entry | The formula, the default values and a step-by-step example |
History
Entry in version 0.1 of 13 November 2026, in the database in version 0.4
- 13 November 2026Version 0.1 of the entry, as of the date of its current value.
- 31 October 2026Creation of the database, in its first version (0.1).
