Madagascar vs Rwanda: Are consumption-based CO₂ per capita emissions above or below the global average?

Madagascar

0.2058 tonnes per person

in 2023

Rwanda

0.252 tonnes per person

in 2023

Madagascar rank

117th

Rwanda rank

115th

Are consumption-based CO₂ per capita emissions above or below the global average? over time

Rwanda currently reports 0.252 tonnes per person against 0.2058 tonnes per person in Madagascar, a difference of 0.0463 tonnes per person.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.2 times Madagascar's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Madagascar ahead.

Madagascar ranks 117th and Rwanda ranks 115th of 120 countries.

Indicator: Are consumption-based CO₂ per capita emissions above or below the global average?
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: 120 places, 4,064 data points, 1990–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual consumption-based emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), measured in tonnes per person.