Burundi vs United States: Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change per capita

Burundi
0.3057 tonnes per person
in 2024
United States
0.3244 tonnes per person
in 2024
Burundi rank
75th
United States rank
72nd

Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change per capita over time

  • Burundi
  • United States
0102030185019372024

How they compare

United States currently reports 0.3244 tonnes per person against 0.3057 tonnes per person in Burundi, a difference of 0.0187 tonnes per person.

That makes United States's figure about 1.1 times Burundi's.

The two have swapped places 16 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was United States ahead.

Burundi ranks 75th and United States ranks 72nd of 194 countries.

Across the 18 decades both report, Burundi averaged higher in 4 and United States in 14.

Head to head by decade

Decade Burundi United States Difference Ahead
1850s 1.55 tonnes per person 33.87 tonnes per person 32.32 tonnes per person United States
1860s 1.5 tonnes per person 22.81 tonnes per person 21.31 tonnes per person United States
1870s 1.62 tonnes per person 31.32 tonnes per person 29.7 tonnes per person United States
1880s 1.64 tonnes per person 25.33 tonnes per person 23.69 tonnes per person United States
1890s 0.8129 tonnes per person 21.91 tonnes per person 21.1 tonnes per person United States
1900s 0.3305 tonnes per person 17.48 tonnes per person 17.15 tonnes per person United States
1910s 0.2793 tonnes per person 12.84 tonnes per person 12.56 tonnes per person United States
1920s 1.33 tonnes per person 9.96 tonnes per person 8.64 tonnes per person United States
1930s 1.88 tonnes per person 5.52 tonnes per person 3.64 tonnes per person United States
1940s 2.1 tonnes per person 4.55 tonnes per person 2.45 tonnes per person United States
1950s 2.41 tonnes per person 2.05 tonnes per person 0.362 tonnes per person Burundi
1960s 2.24 tonnes per person 1.32 tonnes per person 0.9186 tonnes per person Burundi
1970s 0.8005 tonnes per person 1.15 tonnes per person 0.3516 tonnes per person United States
1980s 0.4744 tonnes per person 1.13 tonnes per person 0.6572 tonnes per person United States
1990s 0.4944 tonnes per person 0.6755 tonnes per person 0.1811 tonnes per person United States
2000s 0.4115 tonnes per person 0.4291 tonnes per person 0.0177 tonnes per person United States
2010s 0.4203 tonnes per person 0.2282 tonnes per person 0.1921 tonnes per person Burundi
2020s 0.3395 tonnes per person 0.307 tonnes per person 0.0324 tonnes per person Burundi

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher annual co₂ emissions from land-use change per capita, Burundi or United States?
United States, at 0.3244 tonnes per person against 0.3057 tonnes per person in Burundi as of 2024.
What is the difference in annual co₂ emissions from land-use change per capita between Burundi and United States?
0.0187 tonnes per person, with United States ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Burundi and United States?
175 years are reported by both, from 1850 to 2024.
How do Burundi and United States rank globally for annual co₂ emissions from land-use change per capita?
Burundi ranks 75th and United States ranks 72nd of 194 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change per capita. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Burundi vs United States: Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change per capita. Statizoid, drawing on Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Retrieved 24 September 2026, from https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/co2-land-use-per-capita/burundi/united-states/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://climate.statizoid.com/compare/co2-land-use-per-capita/burundi/united-states/">Burundi vs United States: Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change per capita</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change per capita
Unit
tonnes per person
Source
Global Carbon Budget (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
194 places, 33,660 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from land-use change, measured in tonnes per person.