Botswana vs Uruguay: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Botswana
3.14 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Uruguay
2.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Botswana rank
2nd
Uruguay rank
5th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Botswana
  • Uruguay
02468185019372024

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 3.14 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 2.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Uruguay, a difference of 0.9103 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

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

The two have swapped places 8 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 2nd 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.