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Denmark vs Uruguay: Greenhouse gas emissions

Denmark
45.94 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Uruguay
43.05 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Denmark rank
98th
Uruguay rank
101st

Greenhouse gas emissions over time

  • Denmark
  • Uruguay
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How they compare

Denmark currently reports 45.94 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 43.05 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Uruguay, a difference of 2.88 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

That makes Denmark's figure about 1.1 times Uruguay's.

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

Denmark ranks 98th and Uruguay ranks 101st 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

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