Botswana vs Jamaica: CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita

Botswana

2.96 tonnes per person

in 2024

Jamaica

2.96 tonnes per person

in 2024

Botswana rank

111th

Jamaica rank

112th

CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita over time

Botswana
Jamaica

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 2.96 tonnes per person against 2.96 tonnes per person in Jamaica, a difference of 0.0004 tonnes per person.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1972 it was Jamaica ahead.

Botswana ranks 111th and Jamaica ranks 112th of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP 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.