Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe: CO₂ emissions per capita

Sri Lanka

0.9014 tonnes per person

in 2024

Zimbabwe

0.8237 tonnes per person

in 2024

Sri Lanka rank

161st

Zimbabwe rank

164th

CO₂ emissions per capita over time

Sri Lanka
Zimbabwe

How they compare

Sri Lanka currently reports 0.9014 tonnes per person against 0.8237 tonnes per person in Zimbabwe, a difference of 0.0777 tonnes per person.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.1 times Zimbabwe's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Zimbabwe ahead.

Sri Lanka ranks 161st and Zimbabwe ranks 164th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: CO₂ emissions per capita
Unit: tonnes per person
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 213 places, 22,945 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from burning fossil fuels and industrial processes. This includes emissions from transport, electricity generation, and heating, but not land-use change.