Bolivia vs United Kingdom: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Bolivia

4.09 million tonnes

in 2024

United Kingdom

5.08 million tonnes

in 2024

Bolivia rank

20th

United Kingdom rank

17th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

United Kingdom currently reports 5.08 million tonnes against 4.09 million tonnes in Bolivia, a difference of 991,250 tonnes.

That makes United Kingdom's figure about 1.2 times Bolivia's.

The two have swapped places 58 times across 133 shared years of data; in 1865 it was United Kingdom ahead.

Bolivia ranks 20th and United Kingdom ranks 17th 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.