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

Botswana

2.96 tonnes per person

in 2024

Laos

3.14 tonnes per person

in 2024

Botswana rank

111th

Laos rank

108th

CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita over time

Botswana
Laos

How they compare

Laos currently reports 3.14 tonnes per person against 2.96 tonnes per person in Botswana, a difference of 0.1807 tonnes per person.

That makes Laos's figure about 1.1 times Botswana's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1972 it was Laos ahead.

Botswana ranks 111th and Laos ranks 108th of 213 countries.

Individual pages

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.