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

Laos

242,858 tonnes

in 2024

Zimbabwe

257,859 tonnes

in 2024

Laos rank

66th

Zimbabwe rank

65th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Zimbabwe currently reports 257,859 tonnes against 242,858 tonnes in Laos, a difference of 15,001 tonnes.

That makes Zimbabwe's figure about 1.1 times Laos's.

The two have swapped places 34 times across 69 shared years of data; in 1956 it was Zimbabwe ahead.

Laos ranks 66th 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.