Mauritania vs Zambia: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Mauritania

201,781 tonnes

in 2024

Zambia

212,572 tonnes

in 2024

Mauritania rank

73rd

Zambia rank

71st

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Zambia currently reports 212,572 tonnes against 201,781 tonnes in Mauritania, a difference of 10,791 tonnes.

That makes Zambia's figure about 1.1 times Mauritania's.

The two have swapped places 29 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Mauritania ahead.

Mauritania ranks 73rd and Zambia ranks 71st 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.