Congo vs Lesotho: Annual CO₂ emissions from land-use change per capita

Congo

2.74 tonnes per person

in 2024

Lesotho

2.87 tonnes per person

in 2024

Congo rank

19th

Lesotho rank

17th

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

Lesotho currently reports 2.87 tonnes per person against 2.74 tonnes per person in Congo, a difference of 0.1384 tonnes per person.

That makes Lesotho's figure about 1.1 times Congo's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Congo ahead.

Congo ranks 19th and Lesotho ranks 17th of 194 countries.

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: 07 August 2026

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