Central African Republic vs Uruguay: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Central African Republic
1.88 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Uruguay
2.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Central African Republic rank
6th
Uruguay rank
5th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Central African Republic
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 2.23 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 1.88 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Central African Republic, a difference of 0.3563 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.2 times Central African Republic's.

The two have swapped places 20 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Uruguay ahead.

Central African Republic ranks 6th 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.