Botswana vs Uruguay: Nitrous oxide emissions

Botswana

7.93 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Uruguay

7.57 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Botswana rank

64th

Uruguay rank

66th

Nitrous oxide emissions over time

Botswana
Uruguay

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 7.93 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 7.57 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Uruguay, a difference of 361,590 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 64th and Uruguay ranks 66th of 201 countries.

Individual pages

Nitrous oxide emissions in Botswana
Nitrous oxide emissions in Uruguay
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.