Costa Rica vs Namibia: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal

Costa Rica

2.64 million tonnes

in 2024

Namibia

3.66 million tonnes

in 2024

Costa Rica rank

126th

Namibia rank

123rd

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal over time

Namibia currently reports 3.66 million tonnes against 2.64 million tonnes in Costa Rica, a difference of 1.02 million tonnes.

That makes Namibia's figure about 1.4 times Costa Rica's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Costa Rica ahead.

Costa Rica ranks 126th and Namibia ranks 123rd of 179 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from coal
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: 179 places, 18,115 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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