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Kenya vs Zambia: Greenhouse gas emissions

Kenya
99.48 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Zambia
99.03 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents
in 2024
Kenya rank
58th
Zambia rank
59th

Greenhouse gas emissions over time

  • Kenya
  • Zambia
025.0M50.0M75.0M100.0M125.0M185019372024

How they compare

Kenya currently reports 99.48 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents against 99.03 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents in Zambia, a difference of 447,400 tonnes of CO₂ equivalents.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 175 shared years of data; in 1850 it was Zambia ahead.

Kenya ranks 58th and Zambia ranks 59th 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
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Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents over a 100-year timescale.