Rwanda vs Sierra Leone: Cumulative CO₂ emissions

Rwanda

37.32 million tonnes

in 2024

Sierra Leone

42.62 million tonnes

in 2024

Rwanda rank

167th

Sierra Leone rank

165th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions over time

Sierra Leone currently reports 42.62 million tonnes against 37.32 million tonnes in Rwanda, a difference of 5.30 million tonnes.

That makes Sierra Leone's figure about 1.1 times Rwanda's.

Across all 75 years both countries report, Sierra Leone has been ahead every year.

Rwanda ranks 167th and Sierra Leone ranks 165th 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.