Mexico vs Sri Lanka: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Mexico
2.73 million tonnes
in 2024
Sri Lanka
1.66 million tonnes
in 2024
Mexico rank
28th
Sri Lanka rank
31st

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

  • Mexico
  • Sri Lanka
-40.0M-20.0M020.0M40.0M185719402024

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 2.73 million tonnes against 1.66 million tonnes in Sri Lanka, a difference of 1.07 million tonnes.

That makes Mexico's figure about 1.6 times Sri Lanka's.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Mexico ahead.

Mexico ranks 28th and Sri Lanka ranks 31st 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
Last refreshed

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