Iran vs Ukraine: Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP

Iran

0.488 kilograms per international-$

in 2022

Ukraine

0.4627 kilograms per international-$

in 2022

Iran rank

13th

Ukraine rank

15th

Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP over time

Iran
Ukraine

How they compare

Iran currently reports 0.488 kilograms per international-$ against 0.4627 kilograms per international-$ in Ukraine, a difference of 0.0253 kilograms per international-$.

That makes Iran's figure about 1.1 times Ukraine's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 44 shared years of data; in 1973 it was Ukraine ahead.

Iran ranks 13th and Ukraine ranks 15th 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-$).