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Botswana vs Maldives: Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita

Botswana
301.67 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Maldives
297.4 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour
in 2024
Botswana rank
16th
Maldives rank
17th

Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita over time

  • Botswana
  • Maldives
200400600800198020022024

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 301.67 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour against 297.4 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour in Maldives, a difference of 4.27 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 45 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Maldives ahead.

Botswana ranks 16th and Maldives ranks 17th of 204 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita
Unit
grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour
Source
Global Carbon Budget (2025) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
204 places, 9,804 data points, 1965–2024
Last refreshed

Fossil carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions per unit of total energy supply, measured in grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour.