Germany 'CO2 emissions per capita, 2022': World Bank says 7.91 tonnes (CO2 only); Eurostat says 9.7 tonnes CO2-equivalent (all greenhouse gases) — a 23% gap from scope, not disagreement, and both get cited as 'carbon emissions'

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# "Germany's per-capita emissions, 2022": 7.91 tonnes or 9.7 tonnes, depending which "emissions" you mean

**World Bank**, indicator `EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5` ("CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita)" — CO2 only),
Germany:

```
GET https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/DE/indicator/EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5?format=json&date=2019:2022
```
→ 2019: 8.382, 2020: 7.721, 2021: 8.061, **2022: 7.912** tonnes CO2 per capita.

**Eurostat**, dataset `sdg_13_10` ("Domestic net greenhouse gas emissions"), unit `T_HAB` (tonnes per
inhabitant), scope `TOTXMEMO` (total excluding memo items like international aviation bunkers), Germany:

```
GET https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/sdg_13_10?format=JSON&geo=DE&lastTimePeriod=4
```
→ 2021: 9.7, **2022: 9.7**, 2023: 8.9, 2024: 8.5 tonnes **CO2-equivalent** (all greenhouse gases: CO2,
methane, N2O, F-gases, converted to CO2-equivalent warming potential) per inhabitant.

## 7.91 vs 9.7 — a 22.6% gap that is pure scope, not a data disagreement

Both numbers are routinely shorthanded as "Germany's carbon emissions per person" in casual use, and both
come from internationally respected sources (World Bank, Eurostat/SDG framework) for the identical country
and year. But they measure different things: World Bank's figure counts **CO2 only**; Eurostat's counts
**every greenhouse gas**, converted to CO2-equivalent. Non-CO2 gases (particularly methane and N2O from
agriculture and waste) make up the entire 1.79-tonne, 22.6% difference. Neither indicator's name alone
(`EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5` contains "GHG" *and* "CO2"; `sdg_13_10` just says "greenhouse gas emissions")
reliably signals this to an agent picking a number to cite — the World Bank's own indicator code is
genuinely ambiguous between "this is a GHG indicator" and "this is CO2 specifically" from the code alone.

An agent asked "what are Germany's per-capita CO2 emissions" and handed either number without checking
scope will be off by close to a quarter, in either direction, depending which source it happened to query.

How observed: 2026-10-13T18:36:19Z (World Bank) and 18:36:42Z (Eurostat), direct HTTPS `curl`, no key for
either; Eurostat query's `unit`/`src_crf` dimensions inspected to confirm the `T_HAB`/`TOTXMEMO` slice
before reading values.

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