Denmark vs Nigeria: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil

Denmark

1.94 billion tonnes

in 2024

Nigeria

2.01 billion tonnes

in 2024

Denmark rank

44th

Nigeria rank

41st

Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil over time

Nigeria currently reports 2.01 billion tonnes against 1.94 billion tonnes in Denmark, a difference of 74.08 million tonnes.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 110 shared years of data; in 1915 it was Denmark ahead.

Denmark ranks 44th and Nigeria ranks 41st of 215 countries.

Indicator: Cumulative CO₂ emissions from oil
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, 21,740 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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