Colombia vs Mexico: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Colombia

2.67 million tonnes

in 2024

Mexico

2.73 million tonnes

in 2024

Colombia rank

29th

Mexico rank

28th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Mexico currently reports 2.73 million tonnes against 2.67 million tonnes in Colombia, a difference of 66,750 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 53 times across 168 shared years of data; in 1857 it was Colombia ahead.

Colombia ranks 29th and Mexico ranks 28th 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.