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Japan vs Spain: Nitrous oxide emissions

Japan
17.96 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Spain
18.85 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Japan rank
34th
Spain rank
31st

Nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Japan
  • Spain
010.0M20.0M30.0M40.0M185019372024

How they compare

Spain currently reports 18.85 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 17.96 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Japan, a difference of 884,400 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

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

Japan ranks 34th and Spain ranks 31st 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.