Switzerland vs Uganda: Per capita nitrous oxide emissions

Switzerland

0.2456 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Uganda

0.2491 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Switzerland rank

125th

Uganda rank

122nd

Per capita nitrous oxide emissions over time

Switzerland
Uganda

How they compare

Uganda currently reports 0.2491 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 0.2456 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Switzerland, a difference of 0.0035 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Switzerland ahead.

Switzerland ranks 125th and Uganda ranks 122nd 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.