Chile vs Ecuador: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Chile

1.12 million tonnes

in 2024

Ecuador

1.38 million tonnes

in 2024

Chile rank

36th

Ecuador rank

33rd

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Ecuador currently reports 1.38 million tonnes against 1.12 million tonnes in Chile, a difference of 258,630 tonnes.

That makes Ecuador's figure about 1.2 times Chile's.

The two have swapped places 59 times across 132 shared years of data; in 1893 it was Chile ahead.

Chile ranks 36th and Ecuador ranks 33rd 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.