Guyana vs Mauritania: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Guyana

0.6455 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Mauritania

0.6177 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Guyana rank

32nd

Mauritania rank

34th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Guyana
Mauritania

How they compare

Guyana currently reports 0.6455 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.6177 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Mauritania, a difference of 0.0279 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Mauritania ahead.

Guyana ranks 32nd and Mauritania ranks 34th 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.