Malawi vs Rwanda: Territorial and consumption-based CO₂ emissions

Malawi

1.88 million tonnes

in 2024

Rwanda

2.03 million tonnes

in 2024

Malawi rank

157th

Rwanda rank

156th

Territorial and consumption-based CO₂ emissions over time

Rwanda currently reports 2.03 million tonnes against 1.88 million tonnes in Malawi, a difference of 152,070 tonnes.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.1 times Malawi's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 75 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Malawi ahead.

Malawi ranks 157th and Rwanda ranks 156th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Territorial and consumption-based CO₂ emissions
Unit: tonnes
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 216 places, 23,583 data points, 1750–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Annual total emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), excluding land-use change, measured in tonnes.