South Sudan

CO₂ from fossil fuels and industry in South Sudan, 2022.

2022 at a glance

Total: 1.63 million tonnes
Per person: 0.148 tonnes
Per unit of GDP: Not published

Not ranked: no per-GDP figure is published for South Sudan in 2022.

In 2024, the latest year with a total, South Sudan emitted 1.70 million tonnes.

The trend

CO2 emissions, South Sudan, 1950 to 2024

CO2 from fossil fuels and industry in South Sudan was 1.70 million tonnes in 2024, 304% more than in 1990. The highest yearly total between 1950 and 2024 was 1.91 million tonnes, in 2015.

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Every fifth year and the latest
Year	Million tonnes
1950	0.0442
1955	0.0746
1960	0.109
1965	0.195
1970	0.391
1975	0.341
1980	0.301
1985	0.328
1990	0.419
1995	0.344
2000	0.445
2005	0.882
2010	1.27
2015	1.91
2020	1.71
2024	1.70

By source, 2022

CO2 by source, South Sudan, 2022, million tonnes
Source	Million tonnes
Oil	1.63
Cement	0
Gas flaring	0

Sources

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. Terms. Trimmed from the published file.

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