Botswana vs Chile: Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP

Botswana

0.1882 kilograms per international-$

in 2022

Chile

0.1912 kilograms per international-$

in 2022

Botswana rank

85th

Chile rank

82nd

Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP over time

Botswana
Chile

How they compare

Chile currently reports 0.1912 kilograms per international-$ against 0.1882 kilograms per international-$ in Botswana, a difference of 0.003 kilograms per international-$.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1972 it was Chile ahead.

Botswana ranks 85th and Chile ranks 82nd of 164 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP
Unit: kilograms per international-$
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025); Bolt and van Zanden – Maddison Project Database 2023 – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 164 places, 14,672 data points, 1820–2022
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in kilograms per dollar of GDP (2011 international-$).