Cameroon vs Gambia: CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita

Cameroon

0.3307 tonnes per person

in 2024

Gambia

0.2909 tonnes per person

in 2024

Cameroon rank

187th

Gambia rank

190th

CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita over time

Cameroon
Gambia

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 0.3307 tonnes per person against 0.2909 tonnes per person in Gambia, a difference of 0.0399 tonnes per person.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Gambia's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Gambia ahead.

Cameroon ranks 187th and Gambia ranks 190th 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.