Here an interesting data point: Bangladesh vs Denmark + Norway. A population of 163 million for the former vs a combined 11 million for the latter. And yet total consumption based CO2 emissions are about equivalent. It's even worse when you look at production based emissions. Bangladesh emits less than half the total of CO2 vs Norway + Denmark.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

Per capita resource consumption dominates raw population to a surprisingly large extent.