Australia vs Pakistan: Nitrous oxide emissions

Australia
67.78 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Pakistan
71.43 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Australia rank
8th
Pakistan rank
6th

Nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Australia
  • Pakistan
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How they compare

Pakistan currently reports 71.43 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 67.78 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Australia, a difference of 3.65 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Pakistan's figure about 1.1 times Australia's.

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

Australia ranks 8th and Pakistan ranks 6th of 201 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Nitrous oxide 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
201 places, 35,175 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

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