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Laos vs Vietnam: Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP

Laos
0.4103 kilograms per international-$
in 2022
Vietnam
0.387 kilograms per international-$
in 2022
Laos rank
21st
Vietnam rank
23rd

Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP over time

  • Laos
  • Vietnam
00.20.40.6191319672022

How they compare

Laos currently reports 0.4103 kilograms per international-$ against 0.387 kilograms per international-$ in Vietnam, a difference of 0.0234 kilograms per international-$.

That makes Laos's figure about 1.1 times Vietnam's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 68 shared years of data; in 1955 it was Vietnam ahead.

Laos ranks 21st and Vietnam ranks 23rd 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
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Annual total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in kilograms per dollar of GDP (2011 international-$).