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WORLD STATISTICS

Environment

Global mean atmospheric CO₂ (monthly)

Monthly mean CO₂ averaged over globally distributed marine surface sites. Measured observations, published with a lag of roughly one to two months.
Indicator code
NOAA.CO2.GLOBAL.MONTHLY
Unit
parts per million (dry air mole fraction)
Frequency
monthly
Default classification
Latest available
Original producer
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, marine surface sites
Distributed by
NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory — Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
License
Public domain (U.S. Government work)

World trend

January 1979 – July 2026

Revision history

Changes to previously published values detected during imports.

No revisions recorded since the first import.