China vs Rwanda: Annual percentage change in CO₂ emissions

China

1.0%

in 2024

Rwanda

0.9%

in 2024

China rank

140th

Rwanda rank

142nd

Annual percentage change in CO₂ emissions over time

China currently reports 1.0% against 0.9% in Rwanda, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes China's figure about 1.1 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 26 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1951 it was China ahead.

China ranks 140th and Rwanda ranks 142nd of 215 countries.

Indicator: Annual percentage change in CO₂ emissions
Unit: %
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, 22,456 data points, 1751–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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