Burundi vs Rwanda: Methane emissions

Burundi

4.70 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Rwanda

4.75 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Burundi rank

133rd

Rwanda rank

131st

Methane emissions over time

Burundi
Rwanda

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 4.75 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 4.70 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Burundi, a difference of 44,710 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Burundi ahead.

Burundi ranks 133rd and Rwanda ranks 131st of 199 countries.

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Methane emissions in Burundi
Methane emissions in Rwanda
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Methane emissions
Unit: tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
Source: Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.