South Korea vs Pakistan: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

South Korea
-5.50 million tonnes
in 2024
Pakistan
-7.06 million tonnes
in 2024
South Korea rank
204th
Pakistan rank
206th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

  • South Korea
  • Pakistan
-75.0M-50.0M-25.0M025.0M50.0M191019672024

How they compare

South Korea currently reports -5.50 million tonnes against -7.06 million tonnes in Pakistan, a difference of 1.56 million tonnes.

The two have swapped places 26 times across 78 shared years of data; in 1947 it was South Korea ahead.

South Korea ranks 204th and Pakistan ranks 206th of 215 countries.

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About this data

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
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Annual growth in total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.