Afghanistan vs Uruguay: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Afghanistan
309,679 tonnes
in 2024
Uruguay
346,330 tonnes
in 2024
Afghanistan rank
59th
Uruguay rank
57th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Uruguay
-2.0M-1.0M01.0M2.0M3.0M185719402024

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 346,330 tonnes against 309,679 tonnes in Afghanistan, a difference of 36,651 tonnes.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.1 times Afghanistan's.

The two have swapped places 32 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Uruguay ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 59th and Uruguay ranks 57th of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions
Unit
tonnes
Source
Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
215 places, 23,088 data points, 1751–2024
Last refreshed

Annual growth in total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.