France vs Netherlands: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

France

0.4896 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Netherlands

0.4924 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

France rank

52nd

Netherlands rank

51st

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

France
Netherlands

How they compare

Netherlands currently reports 0.4924 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.4896 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in France, a difference of 0.0028 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

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

France ranks 52nd and Netherlands ranks 51st 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.