Azerbaijan vs Bulgaria: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Azerbaijan
-2.92 million tonnes
in 2024
Bulgaria
-2.88 million tonnes
in 2024
Azerbaijan rank
200th
Bulgaria rank
199th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

  • Azerbaijan
  • Bulgaria
-15.0M-10.0M-5.0M05.0M10.0M183119272024

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports -2.88 million tonnes against -2.92 million tonnes in Azerbaijan, a difference of 38,940 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 61 times across 143 shared years of data; in 1882 it was Azerbaijan ahead.

Azerbaijan ranks 200th and Bulgaria ranks 199th of 215 countries.

Across the 15 decades both report, Azerbaijan averaged higher in 8 and Bulgaria in 7.

Head to head by decade

Decade Azerbaijan Bulgaria Difference Ahead
1880s 15,278 tonnes 2,748 tonnes 12,530 tonnes Azerbaijan
1890s 56,558 tonnes 12,091 tonnes 44,467 tonnes Azerbaijan
1900s 42,525 tonnes 45,800 tonnes 3,275 tonnes Bulgaria
1910s -85,626 tonnes 23,083 tonnes 108,709 tonnes Bulgaria
1920s 106,555 tonnes 164,818 tonnes 58,262 tonnes Bulgaria
1930s 384,778 tonnes 100,018 tonnes 284,760 tonnes Azerbaijan
1940s 267,996 tonnes 396,882 tonnes 128,886 tonnes Bulgaria
1950s 1.03 million tonnes 1.22 million tonnes 185,633 tonnes Bulgaria
1960s 1.14 million tonnes 4.67 million tonnes 3.53 million tonnes Bulgaria
1970s 1.49 million tonnes 1.26 million tonnes 226,340 tonnes Azerbaijan
1980s 691,066 tonnes 753,574 tonnes 62,508 tonnes Bulgaria
1990s -2.28 million tonnes -4.01 million tonnes 1.73 million tonnes Azerbaijan
2000s 28,099 tonnes -62,106 tonnes 90,205 tonnes Azerbaijan
2010s 864,999 tonnes -355,527 tonnes 1.22 million tonnes Azerbaijan
2020s 415,516 tonnes -2.11 million tonnes 2.53 million tonnes Azerbaijan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher year-on-year change in co₂ emissions, Azerbaijan or Bulgaria?
Bulgaria, at -2.88 million tonnes against -2.92 million tonnes in Azerbaijan as of 2024.
What is the difference in year-on-year change in co₂ emissions between Azerbaijan and Bulgaria?
38,940 tonnes, with Bulgaria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Azerbaijan and Bulgaria?
143 years are reported by both, from 1882 to 2024.
How do Azerbaijan and Bulgaria rank globally for year-on-year change in co₂ emissions?
Azerbaijan ranks 200th and Bulgaria ranks 199th of 215 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Azerbaijan vs Bulgaria: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions. Statizoid, drawing on Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/absolute-change-co2/azerbaijan/bulgaria/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/absolute-change-co2/azerbaijan/bulgaria/">Azerbaijan vs Bulgaria: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions</a> — Statizoid

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.