Iceland vs Malawi: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement

Iceland

2.75 million tonnes

in 2024

Malawi

3.93 million tonnes

in 2024

Iceland rank

136th

Malawi rank

134th

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement over time

Malawi currently reports 3.93 million tonnes against 2.75 million tonnes in Iceland, a difference of 1.17 million tonnes.

That makes Malawi's figure about 1.4 times Iceland's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Malawi ahead.

Iceland ranks 136th and Malawi ranks 134th of 211 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from cement
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: 211 places, 24,035 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from cement since the first year of available data, measured in tonnes.