Australia vs Botswana: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Australia
2.54 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Botswana
3.14 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Australia rank
4th
Botswana rank
2nd

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Australia
  • Botswana
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How they compare

Botswana currently reports 3.14 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 2.54 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Australia, a difference of 0.6071 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.2 times Australia's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 4th and Botswana ranks 2nd of 201 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Per capita nitrous oxide emissions
Unit
tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
Source
Jones et al. (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
201 places, 34,339 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

Measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.