Belgium vs Zambia: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Belgium

0.7138 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Zambia

0.6678 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Belgium rank

28th

Zambia rank

31st

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Belgium
Zambia

How they compare

Belgium currently reports 0.7138 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.6678 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Zambia, a difference of 0.046 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Belgium's figure about 1.1 times Zambia's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Zambia ahead.

Belgium ranks 28th and Zambia ranks 31st 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: 07 August 2026

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