Benin vs Cameroon: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Benin

0.2222 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Cameroon

0.224 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Benin rank

138th

Cameroon rank

137th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Benin
Cameroon

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 0.224 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.2222 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Benin, a difference of 0.0017 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Benin ahead.

Benin ranks 138th and Cameroon ranks 137th 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.