Lesotho vs Mongolia: Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita

Lesotho

654.25 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour

in 2024

Mongolia

581.69 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour

in 2024

Lesotho rank

1st

Mongolia rank

2nd

Carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita over time

Lesotho
Mongolia

How they compare

Lesotho currently reports 654.25 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour against 581.69 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour in Mongolia, a difference of 72.56 grams of CO₂ per kilowatt-hour.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Mongolia's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 1st and Mongolia ranks 2nd 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: 07 August 2026

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