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Statistical area
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UN WPP 2024 Revision (estimates through 2023; 2024–2100 medium-variant projections). World Bank WDI, 13 July 2026 release. UNDP HDR HDR 2025. UNESCO UIS UIS February 2026. ILOSTAT ILOSTAT December 2025. IMF WEO WEO April 2026. OWID CO₂ OWID CO₂ December 2025.
Overview
Antarctica is statistical area.
Every figure names its source, year, and whether it is an actual value, an estimate, or a projection. Missing values stay missing.
Life expectancy and mortality are UN WPP series unless labelled otherwise. Education figures are UNESCO UIS (CC BY-SA, isolated) where a comparable series exists; otherwise they stay missing.
Life expectancy at birth
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Prevalence of undernourishment
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No internationally comparable figure in this build.
Adult literacy rate
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Youth literacy rate
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Mean years of schooling
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School life expectancy
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Environment
Forest cover is World Bank WDI. CO₂ is the Global Carbon Project series via Our World in Data — not IEA-EDGAR.
Land area
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CO₂ emissions
0 million tonnes
2024 · OWID / Global Carbon Project · Actual · OWID CO2 data (Global Carbon Project)
CO₂ emissions of Antarctica. Global Carbon Project via Our World in Data. OWID / Global Carbon Project, OWID CO2 data (Global Carbon Project).Data table
Year
Million tonnes
Status
1987
0
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1990
0
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1993
0
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1996
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1999
0
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2002
0
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2005
0
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2008
0
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2011
0
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2014
0
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2017
0
actual
2020
0
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2023
0
actual
2024
0
actual
Geography
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Cartographic size
Tiny state on the 50m globe (point or small polygon)
Outline from Natural Earth 50m Admin 0. Made with Natural Earth. Not a locator map.
Government
Classification is descriptive and is not a recognition of legal claims.Map and status policy.
Status
Statistical area
Publication tier
Index only
Sources
Our World in Data (Global Carbon Project)
OWID CO2 data (Global Carbon Project). Vintage OWID CO₂ December 2025. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-09-03. Source file.
CO₂ emissions (2024, actual; series co2)
Names, classifications, and boundaries are for statistical and cartographic use and do not constitute recognition of legal claims.
