Egypt vs Nigeria: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Egypt

8.14 million tonnes

in 2024

Nigeria

6.45 million tonnes

in 2024

Egypt rank

12th

Nigeria rank

13th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Egypt currently reports 8.14 million tonnes against 6.45 million tonnes in Nigeria, a difference of 1.69 million tonnes.

That makes Egypt's figure about 1.3 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 46 times across 109 shared years of data; in 1916 it was Egypt ahead.

Egypt ranks 12th and Nigeria ranks 13th 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.