Ethiopia vs Zimbabwe: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Ethiopia

266,630 tonnes

in 2024

Zimbabwe

257,859 tonnes

in 2024

Ethiopia rank

64th

Zimbabwe rank

65th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Ethiopia currently reports 266,630 tonnes against 257,859 tonnes in Zimbabwe, a difference of 8,771 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 31 times across 78 shared years of data; in 1942 it was Zimbabwe ahead.

Ethiopia ranks 64th and Zimbabwe ranks 65th 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.