Burundi vs Rwanda: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Burundi

15,948 tonnes

in 2024

Rwanda

17,535 tonnes

in 2024

Burundi rank

126th

Rwanda rank

125th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Rwanda currently reports 17,535 tonnes against 15,948 tonnes in Burundi, a difference of 1,587 tonnes.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.1 times Burundi's.

The two have swapped places 38 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Rwanda ahead.

Burundi ranks 126th and Rwanda ranks 125th 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.