Botswana vs Congo: Cumulative CO₂ emissions

Botswana

184.34 million tonnes

in 2024

Congo

191.08 million tonnes

in 2024

Botswana rank

132nd

Congo rank

131st

Cumulative CO₂ emissions over time

Congo currently reports 191.08 million tonnes against 184.34 million tonnes in Botswana, a difference of 6.74 million tonnes.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 53 shared years of data; in 1972 it was Congo ahead.

Botswana ranks 132nd and Congo ranks 131st of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions
Unit: tonnes
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 215 places, 23,408 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, since the first year of available data, measured in tonnes.