Australia vs Mexico: Total greenhouse gas emissions, excluding land use and forestry

Australia
455.56 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Mexico
551.31 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Australia rank
16th
Mexico rank
14th

Total greenhouse gas emissions, excluding land use and forestry over time

  • Australia
  • Mexico
0200.0M400.0M600.0M185019372024

How they compare

Mexico currently reports 551.31 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 455.56 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Australia, a difference of 95.75 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Mexico's figure about 1.2 times Australia's.

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

Australia ranks 16th and Mexico ranks 14th of 198 countries.

Individual pages

About this data

Indicator
Total greenhouse gas emissions, excluding land use and forestry
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
198 places, 34,488 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed

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