Eritrea vs Rwanda: Greenhouse gas emissions

Eritrea
10.42 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Rwanda
9.72 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Eritrea rank
144th
Rwanda rank
147th

Greenhouse gas emissions over time

  • Eritrea
  • Rwanda
05.0M10.0M15.0M185019372024

How they compare

Eritrea currently reports 10.42 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 9.72 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Rwanda, a difference of 703,010 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

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

The two have swapped places 5 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Rwanda ahead.

Eritrea ranks 144th and Rwanda ranks 147th 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.