Annual CO₂ emissions from coal in Congo
Congo: Annual CO₂ emissions from coal was 0 tonnes in 1958. ◆ Volatile
Annual CO₂ emissions from coal in Congo, 1950–1958
Source: Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in tonnes.
Analysis
Congo recorded 0 tonnes for annual co₂ emissions from coal in 1958. That is the lowest value across all 9 years on record.
That represents a change of down 100.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, annual co₂ emissions from coal in Congo peaked at 12,598 tonnes in 1952 and was at its lowest, 0 tonnes, in 1956.
Congo ranks 141st of 179 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Countries ranked near Congo
- 138 Burkina Faso 11 tonnes compare
- 140 Turkmenistan 4 tonnes compare
- 141 Andorra 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Angola 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Aruba 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Bahrain 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Barbados 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Bermuda 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Cape Verde 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Central African Republic 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Chad 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Curacao 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Ecuador 0 tonnes compare
- 141 El Salvador 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Faroe Islands 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Fiji 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Gabon 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Greenland 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Guyana 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Libya 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Macao 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Mauritania 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Paraguay 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Saint Helena 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Samoa 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Sierra Leone 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 0 tonnes compare
- 141 South Sudan 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Sudan 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Suriname 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Togo 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Tonga 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Trinidad and Tobago 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Tunisia 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Uganda 0 tonnes compare
- 141 Vanuatu 0 tonnes compare
More climate change data for Congo
- Share of global CO₂ emissions and population 0.2% (2100)
- Population growth 2.4% (2025)
- Population, total 6.48 million (2025)
- Urban population growth 2.7% (2025)
- Urban population 4.16 million (2025)
- Urban population 64.1% (2025)
- CO₂ emissions per capita vs. GDP per capita 1.4 tonnes per person (2024)
- Cumulative CO₂ emissions 191.08 million tonnes (2024)
- CO₂ emissions per capita 1.4 tonnes per person (2024)
- CO₂ emissions per capita vs. share of electricity generation from renewables 1.4 tonnes per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is annual co₂ emissions from coal in Congo?
- Annual co₂ emissions from coal in Congo was 0 tonnes in 1958, according to Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest annual co₂ emissions from coal recorded in Congo?
- The highest recorded value was 12,598 tonnes in 1952.
- What is the lowest annual co₂ emissions from coal recorded in Congo?
- The lowest recorded value was 0 tonnes in 1956.
- How does Congo rank for annual co₂ emissions from coal?
- Congo ranks 141st out of 179 countries with data for 1958.
- Is annual co₂ emissions from coal rising or falling in Congo?
- Over the last ten years it is down 100.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Congo data come from?
- The figures come from Global Carbon Budget (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Annual CO₂ emissions from coal. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from coal, measured in tonnes.