2.06 ppm
2025 (latest)
GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CO2 GROWTH
ppm/year · 1959–2025 · neither direction is "better" · NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
0.96 ppm
1959
3.76 ppm
high · 2024
0.49 ppm
low · 1964
+1.10 pts
since 1959
┊ dashed lines mark 1979 Oil shock & inflation peak · 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Published annual mean, annual growth, or AGGI column; uncertainty columns are not observations. None known; publisher revisions may revise the full history. Breaks: none known; publisher revisions may revise the full history.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_gr_gl.csv
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Energy-And-Environment
Data
| Year | Global atmospheric CO2 growth | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.06 ppm | −1.70 pts |
| 2024 | 3.76 ppm | +1.06 pts |
| 2023 | 2.70 ppm | +0.46 pts |
| 2022 | 2.24 ppm | −0.14 pts |
| 2021 | 2.38 ppm | +0.05 pts |
| 2020 | 2.33 ppm | −0.17 pts |
| 2019 | 2.50 ppm | +0.11 pts |
| 2018 | 2.39 ppm | +0.25 pts |
| 2017 | 2.14 ppm | −0.69 pts |
| 2016 | 2.83 ppm | −0.12 pts |
| 2015 | 2.95 ppm | +0.92 pts |
| 2014 | 2.03 ppm | −0.42 pts |
| 2013 | 2.45 ppm | +0.03 pts |
| 2012 | 2.42 ppm | +0.69 pts |
| 2011 | 1.73 ppm | −0.63 pts |
| 2010 | 2.36 ppm | +0.78 pts |
| 2009 | 1.58 ppm | −0.20 pts |
| 2008 | 1.78 ppm | −0.35 pts |
| 2007 | 2.13 ppm | +0.36 pts |
| 2006 | 1.77 ppm | −0.70 pts |
| 2005 | 2.47 ppm | +0.91 pts |
| 2004 | 1.56 ppm | −0.72 pts |
| 2003 | 2.28 ppm | −0.08 pts |
| 2002 | 2.36 ppm | +0.51 pts |
| 2001 | 1.85 ppm | +0.60 pts |
| 2000 | 1.25 ppm | −0.08 pts |
| 1999 | 1.33 ppm | −1.51 pts |
| 1998 | 2.84 ppm | +0.86 pts |
| 1997 | 1.98 ppm | +0.93 pts |
| 1996 | 1.05 ppm | −0.95 pts |
| 1995 | 2.00 ppm | +0.34 pts |
| 1994 | 1.66 ppm | +0.42 pts |
| 1993 | 1.24 ppm | +0.53 pts |
| 1992 | 0.71 ppm | −0.04 pts |
| 1991 | 0.75 ppm | −0.47 pts |
| 1990 | 1.22 ppm | −0.25 pts |
| 1989 | 1.47 ppm | −0.70 pts |
| 1988 | 2.17 ppm | −0.49 pts |
| 1987 | 2.66 ppm | +1.65 pts |
| 1986 | 1.01 ppm | −0.64 pts |
| 1985 | 1.65 ppm | +0.42 pts |
| 1984 | 1.23 ppm | −0.61 pts |
| 1983 | 1.84 ppm | +0.84 pts |
| 1982 | 1.00 ppm | −0.15 pts |
| 1981 | 1.15 ppm | −0.52 pts |
| 1980 | 1.67 ppm | −0.47 pts |
| 1979 | 2.14 ppm | +0.85 pts |
| 1978 | 1.29 ppm | −0.63 pts |
| 1977 | 1.92 ppm | +0.95 pts |
| 1976 | 0.97 ppm | −0.26 pts |
| 1975 | 1.23 ppm | +0.55 pts |
| 1974 | 0.68 ppm | −0.78 pts |
| 1973 | 1.46 ppm | −0.01 pts |
| 1972 | 1.47 ppm | +0.74 pts |
| 1971 | 0.73 ppm | −0.40 pts |
| 1970 | 1.13 ppm | −0.19 pts |
| 1969 | 1.32 ppm | +0.33 pts |
| 1968 | 0.99 ppm | +0.38 pts |
| 1967 | 0.61 ppm | −0.49 pts |
| 1966 | 1.10 ppm | +0.00 pts |
| 1965 | 1.10 ppm | +0.61 pts |
| 1964 | 0.49 ppm | −0.08 pts |
| 1963 | 0.57 ppm | +0.01 pts |
| 1962 | 0.56 ppm | −0.22 pts |
| 1961 | 0.78 ppm | +0.07 pts |
| 1960 | 0.71 ppm | −0.25 pts |
| 1959 | 0.96 ppm | — |
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