France vs Germany: Nitrous oxide emissions

France

32.58 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Germany

32.16 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

France rank

15th

Germany rank

16th

Nitrous oxide emissions over time

France
Germany

How they compare

France currently reports 32.58 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 32.16 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Germany, a difference of 421,500 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Germany ahead.

France ranks 15th and Germany ranks 16th of 201 countries.

Individual pages

Nitrous oxide emissions in France
Nitrous oxide emissions in Germany
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.