Lesotho vs Madagascar: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Lesotho

78,134 tonnes

in 2024

Madagascar

81,610 tonnes

in 2024

Lesotho rank

98th

Madagascar rank

96th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Madagascar currently reports 81,610 tonnes against 78,134 tonnes in Lesotho, a difference of 3,476 tonnes.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1991 it was Madagascar ahead.

Lesotho ranks 98th and Madagascar ranks 96th 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.