Benin vs Mauritania: Nitrous oxide emissions

Benin

3.21 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Mauritania

3.19 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Benin rank

103rd

Mauritania rank

104th

Nitrous oxide emissions over time

Benin
Mauritania

How they compare

Benin currently reports 3.21 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 3.19 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Mauritania, a difference of 21,180 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Mauritania ahead.

Benin ranks 103rd and Mauritania ranks 104th of 201 countries.

Individual pages

Nitrous oxide emissions in Benin
Nitrous oxide emissions in Mauritania
Full country ranking

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: 07 August 2026

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