5. Income

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Upper-middle-income countries are 38% of the world's people and half of its emissions. Low-income countries are 9% of the people and under 1% of the emissions.

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The gap opens at both ends, and the largest block is the middle: the upper-middle-income half of emissions is mostly China. High-income countries hold 17% of the people and 37% of the emissions. Low-income countries, around 750 million people, account for 0.6%.

A snapshot of the current flow is not the same question as who put the carbon there. Finding 6 asks that one.

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