Divide by GDP to get the efficiency (Score 1)

Howdy,

Dividing by population is biased. Dividing by domestic output shows the true efficiency of a country's economic engine.

Using Wikipedia, so if the GDP numbers are wrong, that's why, we can divide the emissions by country GDP to find out how efficiently (in terms of emissions) the country is making it's economy work.

Taking the top 15 polluters and ordering by Emissions/GDP, we get:

Rank Country Emissions GDP ($M) Emissions/GDP

1. Ukraine 108431 81,664 1.33
   
2. Russia 431090 766,180 0.56
   
3. China 917997 2,224,811 0.41
   
4. India 272212 775,410 0.35
   
5. Poland 97375 300,533 0.32
   
6. South Korea 111370 793,070 0.14
   
7. Mexico 95007 768,437 0.12
   
8. Australia 83688 707,992 0.12
   
9. US 1446777 12,485,725 0.12
   
10. Canada 111723 1,130,208 0.10
    
11. Germany 235050 2,797,343 0.08
    
12. Japan 318686 4,571,314 0.07
    
13. UK 152015 2,201,473 0.07
    
14. Italy 110052 1,766,160 0.06
    
15. France 98750 2,105,864 0.05
    

So how about the top three least efficient countries (Ukraine, Russia, and China) focus on fixing themselves before people start landing on the US (btw those three added together have the same emissions level as the US).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ GDP_(nominal)
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/each- countrys-share-of-co2-emissions.html