CO₂ per person in Rwanda

0.143

tonnes of CO₂ per person, per year · 2024

202nd highest of 213 countries

In 2014: 0.073

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Nearby in the ranking

  1. Sierra Leone 0.166
  2. Guinea-Bissau 0.155
  3. Liberia 0.153
  4. Rwanda 0.143
  5. S. Sudan 0.142
  6. Madagascar 0.142
  7. Chad 0.139

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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from burning fossil fuels and industrial processes. This includes emissions from transport, electricity generation, and heating, but not land-use change.

Unit
tonnes of CO₂ per person, per year
Years
1858–2024
Data as of
2026-09-28
Source
Our World in Data
License
CC BY 4.0
Credit
Our World in Data; Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0