Cape Verde vs Sierra Leone: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Cape Verde

0.1678 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Sierra Leone

0.169 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Cape Verde rank

157th

Sierra Leone rank

156th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Cape Verde
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 0.169 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.1678 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Cape Verde, a difference of 0.0011 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Cape Verde ranks 157th and Sierra Leone ranks 156th 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.