Nepal vs Uruguay: Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions

Nepal

428,262 tonnes

in 2024

Uruguay

346,330 tonnes

in 2024

Nepal rank

55th

Uruguay rank

57th

Year-on-year change in CO₂ emissions over time

Nepal currently reports 428,262 tonnes against 346,330 tonnes in Uruguay, a difference of 81,932 tonnes.

That makes Nepal's figure about 1.2 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 35 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Uruguay ahead.

Nepal ranks 55th and Uruguay ranks 57th 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.