Canada vs Mexico: Nitrous oxide emissions

Canada
44.73 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Mexico
39.55 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Canada rank
11th
Mexico rank
14th

Nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Canada
  • Mexico
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How they compare

Canada currently reports 44.73 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 39.55 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Mexico, a difference of 5.19 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Canada's figure about 1.1 times Mexico's.

The two have swapped places 8 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 11th and Mexico ranks 14th 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.