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

Cameroon

0.3307 tonnes per person

in 2024

Tanzania

0.292 tonnes per person

in 2024

Cameroon rank

187th

Tanzania rank

189th

CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita over time

Cameroon
Tanzania

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 0.3307 tonnes per person against 0.292 tonnes per person in Tanzania, a difference of 0.0387 tonnes per person.

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

The two have swapped places 3 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Tanzania ahead.

Cameroon ranks 187th and Tanzania ranks 189th 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.