Australia vs Uruguay: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Australia
2.54 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Uruguay
2.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Australia rank
4th
Uruguay rank
5th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Australia
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Australia currently reports 2.54 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 2.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Uruguay, a difference of 0.3032 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

Across all 175 years both countries report, Australia has been ahead every year.

Australia ranks 4th and Uruguay ranks 5th 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.