Benin vs Luxembourg: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Benin

138,516 tonnes

in 2024

Luxembourg

199,050 tonnes

in 2024

Benin rank

78th

Luxembourg rank

75th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Luxembourg currently reports 199,050 tonnes against 138,516 tonnes in Benin, a difference of 60,534 tonnes.

That makes Luxembourg's figure about 1.4 times Benin's.

The two have swapped places 30 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Luxembourg ahead.

Benin ranks 78th and Luxembourg ranks 75th of 215 countries.

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: 07 August 2026

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