Germany vs Kenya: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Germany

0.3803 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Kenya

0.3634 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Germany rank

71st

Kenya rank

74th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Germany
Kenya

How they compare

Germany currently reports 0.3803 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.3634 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Kenya, a difference of 0.017 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Germany ahead.

Germany ranks 71st and Kenya ranks 74th 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.