Rwanda vs Sierra Leone: CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita

Rwanda

0.1426 tonnes per person

in 2024

Sierra Leone

0.166 tonnes per person

in 2024

Rwanda rank

202nd

Sierra Leone rank

199th

CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita over time

Rwanda
Sierra Leone

How they compare

Sierra Leone currently reports 0.166 tonnes per person against 0.1426 tonnes per person in Rwanda, a difference of 0.0233 tonnes per person.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.2 times Rwanda's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Sierra Leone ahead.

Rwanda ranks 202nd and Sierra Leone ranks 199th 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.