Countries

Burundi

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry produced in Burundi (territorial emissions; land-use change is not included). The figures below are for 2022, the latest year with total, per-person and per-GDP figures for at least 150 countries.

2022 at a glance

Total
0.878 million tonnes153rd of 164 countries in 2022
Per person
0.0659 tonnes163rd of 164 countries in 2022
Per unit of GDP
0.0956 kg per international dollar (2011 prices, PPP)154th of 164 countries in 2022

In 2024, the latest year with a total, Burundi emitted 0.917 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, Burundi, 1950 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in Burundi was 0.917 million tonnes in 2024, 339% more than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1950 and 2024 was 0.917 million tonnes, in 2024.

Show the data as a table
Every fifth year and the latest
YearMillion tonnes
19500.00879
19550.00754
19600.0364
19650.0366
19700.0623
19750.0769
19800.147
19850.231
19900.209
19950.238
20000.271
20050.158
20100.333
20150.355
20200.739
20240.917

By source, 2022

OWID splits CO2 by the fuel or process it comes from, not by economic sector. The published parts add up to 0.878 million tonnes of the 0.878 million tonne total.

CO2 by source, Burundi, 2022, million tonnes
SourceMillion tonnes
Coal0.0438
Oil0.831
Cement0.00254
Gas flaring0

Sources and licences

  • Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (owid-co2-data.csv): countries from 1950. Our World in Data, CO2 and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions), based on the Global Carbon Budget (2025), the Maddison Project Database 2023 (Bolt and van Zanden) and OWID's population series. Retrieved 16 October 2026. CC BY 4.0 for Our World in Data's own work; data produced by third parties keeps its source's terms (OWID's co2-data README). CO2: Global Carbon Budget (2025); GDP: Maddison Project Database 2023; population: OWID's population series. Terms, full data file. Changes: Countries only (rows with a three-letter ISO code), years from 1950, and the columns iso_code, country, year, population, co2, co2_per_capita, co2_per_gdp and the CO2 by source (coal, oil, gas, cement, flaring, other industry); values and row order as published; LF line endings.

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