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Mauritania vs Saudi Arabia: Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP

Mauritania
0.3361 kilograms per international-$
in 2022
Saudi Arabia
0.3657 kilograms per international-$
in 2022
Mauritania rank
31st
Saudi Arabia rank
28th

Carbon intensity: CO₂ emissions per dollar of GDP over time

  • Mauritania
  • Saudi Arabia
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How they compare

Saudi Arabia currently reports 0.3657 kilograms per international-$ against 0.3361 kilograms per international-$ in Mauritania, a difference of 0.0296 kilograms per international-$.

That makes Saudi Arabia's figure about 1.1 times Mauritania's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 64 shared years of data; in 1959 it was Saudi Arabia ahead.

Mauritania ranks 31st and Saudi Arabia ranks 28th 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

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