Cuba vs United Arab Emirates: Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP

Cuba

0.2764 kilograms per international-$

in 2022

United Arab Emirates

0.2656 kilograms per international-$

in 2022

Cuba rank

48th

United Arab Emirates rank

51st

Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP over time

Cuba
United Arab Emirates

How they compare

Cuba currently reports 0.2764 kilograms per international-$ against 0.2656 kilograms per international-$ in United Arab Emirates, a difference of 0.0108 kilograms per international-$.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 62 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Cuba ahead.

Cuba ranks 48th and United Arab Emirates ranks 51st 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-$).