Mongolia vs Uruguay: Per capita methane emissions

Mongolia
12.21 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Uruguay
7.37 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person
in 2024
Mongolia rank
2nd
Uruguay rank
5th

Per capita methane emissions over time

  • Mongolia
  • Uruguay
2.557.51012.515185019372024

How they compare

Mongolia currently reports 12.21 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person against 7.37 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person in Uruguay, a difference of 4.84 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents per person.

That makes Mongolia's figure about 1.7 times Uruguay's.

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

Mongolia ranks 2nd and Uruguay ranks 5th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Per capita methane 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

Measured in tonnes per person of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.