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World

The same currency, at industrial scale.

Anchors

Dane-years, for scale
The world, every day1.6 trillion ø
12 million Dane-years, daily · UNEP EGR 2025: 57.7 Gt (2024)
All Danes' personal consumption, one year630 billion ø
107,000 ø × 5.9 million — more than the US military (ops only) · derived; CONCITO 2023
US military, one year510 billion ø
3.9 million Danes · Crawford/Brown Univ., MIT Press 2022; ops only, ~3× with industry (CCI 2025)
Aalborg Portland, per day39 million ø
300 Danes' whole year, daily — and falling · company reporting: 1.43 Mt 2024 (−36% vs 2021); CCS 1.25 Mt/yr from ~2030
Taylor Swift's jet, 202230 million ø
230 Danes for a year · Yard 2022 incl. fuel-burn revision (~3,000 t; viral figure was 8,300 t)
One superyacht, a year70 million ø
540 Danes · Barros & Wilk 2021 (7,020 t)
One large container ship, per day at sea6 million ø
46 Danes' year, per day · IMO factors; Maersk fleet 34 Mt 2024 ≈ DK territorial 39 Mt
An F-35, per flight hour130,000 ø
one Dane's whole year, per hour · ~4.5 t fuel/h × 3.16; CBO
One hectare drained peatland, per year300,000 ø
2–3 whole Danes, doing nothing · Klimarådet/DCE 30–40 t/ha; DK 173,000 ha; 4.1 Mt potential; 187 of 100,000 ha target delivered by 2023
Building a new house600,000 ø
4½ Dane-years before move-in · BUILD/SBi 2020:04 (~55–67 t)
A 5 MW wind turbine, built20 million ø
pays itself back in ~6.5 months · Vestas V162 EPD
One tonne of steel19,000 ø
cement: 6,000 ø/t · worldsteel 2024 (1.92 t/t)

The world, per person per day

The planet’s budget is 70 ø a day

Whole footprints, including the public services nobody chooses individually. A Dane living exactly on the 130 ø daily budget still lands near this figure once overhead and the month’s lumpy costs are counted — which is the point: the gap is structural, not personal.

Countryø/day× the planet’s budget
Qatar96013.7
Kuwait82011.7
United Arab Emirates6859.8
United States5207.4
Canada5207.4
Australia5207.4
Mongolia5007.1
Saudi Arabia4957.1
Oman3855.5
Kazakhstan3855.5
Denmark3555.1
South Korea3555.1
Ireland3304.7
Belgium3304.7
Switzerland3304.7
Russia3304.7
Turkmenistan3304.7
Taiwan3304.7
New Zealand3304.7
Norway3004.3
Netherlands3004.3
Austria3004.3
Czechia3004.3
Finland2753.9
Poland2753.9
Germany2703.9
Uruguay2453.5
Israel2453.5
Japan2453.5
United Kingdom2353.4
Malaysia2353.4
France2253.2
Paraguay2203.1
Sweden2203.1
Italy2203.1
Slovakia2203.1
Libya2203.1
Iran2203.1
China2203.1
Argentina2052.9
Spain2052.9
Greece2052.9
Hungary1902.7
South Africa1902.7
Portugal1802.6
Bulgaria1802.6
Belarus1802.6
Türkiye1802.6
Bolivia1652.4
Romania1652.4
Brazil1502.1
Chile1502.1
Iraq1351.9
Mexico1251.8
Thailand1251.8
Venezuela1101.6
Ukraine1101.6
Algeria1101.6
Vietnam1051.5
Colombia951.4
Ecuador951.4
Uzbekistan901.3
Dominican Republic801.1
Peru801.1
Botswana801.1
Jordan801.1
Tunisia751.1
Egypt751.1
Indonesia751.1
Cuba701.0
India650.9
Morocco600.9
Guatemala550.8
Namibia550.8
Laos550.8
Philippines500.7
Nigeria450.6
Pakistan450.6
Sudan400.6
Chad400.6
Angola400.6
Sri Lanka400.6
Myanmar400.6
Cambodia400.6
North Korea400.6
Papua New Guinea400.6
Bangladesh350.5
Syria300.4
Mali250.4
Ghana250.4
Côte d'Ivoire250.4
Senegal250.4
Kenya250.4
Tanzania250.4
Zambia250.4
Zimbabwe250.4
Cameroon250.4
Nepal250.4
Haiti200.3
Niger200.3
Ethiopia200.3
Mozambique200.3
Yemen200.3
DR Congo150.2
Madagascar150.2
Somalia150.2
Afghanistan150.2

consumption-based CO2e approximations 2022-23; USA/Nigeria adjusted Aug 2026; Mongolia uncertain