CO₂ per person in Zambia

0.565

tonnes of CO₂ per person, per year · 2024

178th highest of 213 countries

In 2014: 0.332

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Nearby in the ranking

  1. Angola 0.589
  2. Nigeria 0.584
  3. Myanmar 0.58
  4. Zambia 0.565
  5. Kiribati 0.539
  6. Djibouti 0.483
  7. Timor-Leste 0.477

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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