Canada vs Ethiopia: Share of global nitrous oxide emissions

Canada
1.5%
in 2024
Ethiopia
1.8%
in 2024
Canada rank
11th
Ethiopia rank
10th

Share of global nitrous oxide emissions over time

  • Canada
  • Ethiopia
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How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 1.8% against 1.5% in Canada, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Ethiopia's figure about 1.2 times Canada's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Canada ahead.

Canada ranks 11th and Ethiopia ranks 10th of 201 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Share of global nitrous oxide emissions
Unit
%
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
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Measured as a percentage of the world's nitrous oxide emissions.