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Cameroon vs Ghana: Methane emissions

Cameroon
21.40 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Ghana
19.53 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Cameroon rank
73rd
Ghana rank
75th

Methane emissions over time

  • Cameroon
  • Ghana
05.0M10.0M15.0M20.0M25.0M185019372024

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 21.40 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 19.53 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Ghana, a difference of 1.87 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Ghana's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Cameroon ahead.

Cameroon ranks 73rd and Ghana ranks 75th of 199 countries.

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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

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