Countries

Rwanda

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry produced in Rwanda (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
1.96 million tonnes147th of 164 countries in 2022
Per person
0.143 tonnes156th of 164 countries in 2022
Per unit of GDP
0.0688 kg per international dollar (2011 prices, PPP)159th of 164 countries in 2022

In 2024, the latest year with a total, Rwanda emitted 2.03 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, Rwanda, 1950 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in Rwanda was 2.03 million tonnes in 2024, 288% more than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1950 and 2024 was 2.03 million tonnes, in 2024.

Show the data as a table
Every fifth year and the latest
YearMillion tonnes
19500.0169
19550.0144
19600.0698
19650.0476
19700.0586
19750.176
19800.495
19850.616
19900.524
19950.451
20000.515
20050.514
20100.581
20150.967
20201.39
20242.03

By source, 2022

OWID splits CO2 by the fuel or process it comes from, not by economic sector. The published parts add up to 1.96 million tonnes of the 1.96 million tonne total.

CO2 by source, Rwanda, 2022, million tonnes
SourceMillion tonnes
Coal0.187
Oil1.37
Gas0.0914
Cement0.312
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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