Spain vs United Kingdom: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Spain

0.3934 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

United Kingdom

0.4059 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Spain rank

65th

United Kingdom rank

62nd

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Spain
United Kingdom

How they compare

United Kingdom currently reports 0.4059 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.3934 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Spain, a difference of 0.0125 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Spain ranks 65th and United Kingdom ranks 62nd 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.