Cameroon vs Zambia: Methane emissions

Cameroon

21.40 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Zambia

21.14 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Cameroon rank

73rd

Zambia rank

74th

Methane emissions over time

Cameroon
Zambia

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 21.40 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 21.14 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Zambia, a difference of 261,600 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

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

Cameroon ranks 73rd and Zambia ranks 74th of 199 countries.

Individual pages

Methane emissions in Cameroon
Methane emissions in Zambia
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.