Botswana vs Zambia: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Botswana

212,922 tonnes

in 2024

Zambia

212,572 tonnes

in 2024

Botswana rank

70th

Zambia rank

71st

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Botswana currently reports 212,922 tonnes against 212,572 tonnes in Zambia, a difference of 350 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 29 times across 52 shared years of data; in 1973 it was Zambia ahead.

Botswana ranks 70th and Zambia ranks 71st 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.