Kenya vs Sierra Leone: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Kenya

39,712 tonnes

in 2024

Sierra Leone

53,848 tonnes

in 2024

Kenya rank

104th

Sierra Leone rank

101st

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Sierra Leone currently reports 53,848 tonnes against 39,712 tonnes in Kenya, a difference of 14,136 tonnes.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.4 times Kenya's.

The two have swapped places 33 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Kenya ahead.

Kenya ranks 104th and Sierra Leone ranks 101st 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.