Ecuador vs Uruguay: CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita

Ecuador

2.54 tonnes per person

in 2024

Uruguay

2.35 tonnes per person

in 2024

Ecuador rank

121st

Uruguay rank

124th

CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita over time

Ecuador
Uruguay

How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 2.54 tonnes per person against 2.35 tonnes per person in Uruguay, a difference of 0.181 tonnes per person.

That makes Ecuador's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

The two have swapped places 19 times across 133 shared years of data; in 1892 it was Uruguay ahead.

Ecuador ranks 121st and Uruguay ranks 124th 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.