Japan vs Mauritius: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Japan

0.1452 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Mauritius

0.1463 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Japan rank

166th

Mauritius rank

164th

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Japan
Mauritius

How they compare

Mauritius currently reports 0.1463 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.1452 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Japan, a difference of 0.0012 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Mauritius ahead.

Japan ranks 166th and Mauritius ranks 164th of 201 countries.

Individual pages

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.