Ireland vs Libya: Cumulative CO₂ emissions

Ireland

2.37 billion tonnes

in 2024

Libya

2.49 billion tonnes

in 2024

Ireland rank

64th

Libya rank

63rd

Cumulative CO₂ emissions over time

Libya currently reports 2.49 billion tonnes against 2.37 billion tonnes in Ireland, a difference of 123.45 million tonnes.

That makes Libya's figure about 1.1 times Ireland's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Ireland ahead.

Ireland ranks 64th and Libya ranks 63rd of 215 regions.

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.