Iceland vs Libya: Per capita greenhouse gas emissions

Iceland

12.85 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Libya

12.87 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person

in 2024

Iceland rank

25th

Libya rank

24th

Per capita greenhouse gas emissions over time

Iceland
Libya

How they compare

Libya currently reports 12.87 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 12.85 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Iceland, a difference of 0.0151 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Iceland ahead.

Iceland ranks 25th and Libya ranks 24th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Per capita greenhouse gas emissions
Unit: tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
Source: Jones et al. (2025); Population based on various sources (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 199 places, 34,079 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.