Botswana vs Yemen: Greenhouse gas emissions

Botswana

26.20 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Yemen

26.66 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents

in 2024

Botswana rank

121st

Yemen rank

119th

Greenhouse gas emissions over time

Botswana
Yemen

How they compare

Yemen currently reports 26.66 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 26.20 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Botswana, a difference of 464,400 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Yemen ahead.

Botswana ranks 121st and Yemen ranks 119th of 199 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Greenhouse gas emissions
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: 199 places, 34,825 data points, 1850–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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