Botswana vs Mongolia: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Botswana
3.14 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Mongolia
4.26 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Botswana rank
2nd
Mongolia rank
1st

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Botswana
  • Mongolia
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How they compare

Mongolia currently reports 4.26 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 3.14 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Botswana, a difference of 1.12 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Mongolia's figure about 1.4 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 2nd and Mongolia ranks 1st 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.